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| adoption | A legal process by which children enter a family they were not born into |
| blended families | A family group that is formed when a single parent marries another person, who may or may not have kids |
| extended families | A family group that includes relatives other than a parent and child who live with them |
| family life cycle | A series of stages that families live through |
| foster children | Children who enter a family temporarily because they need a home until thier parents can solve their problems or until the children can find a permanent adoptive home |
| guardians | Adult who takes all financial and legal responsibility for raising a child |
| nuclear family | A family group that includes a mother and a father and at least one child |
| single-parent family | A family group that includes one parent and at least one child |
| values | What is important to people |
| emotional maturity | Being responsible enough to consistently put someone else's needs before your own |
| parenthood | The state of being a parent, which begins when one has a child by birth or adoption |
| behaviors | Ways of acting or responding |
| adolescence | The stage of life between childhood and adulthood |
| child development | The study of how children master new skills |
| developmental tasks | Challenges that must be met or skill developed at a particular stage of life |
| environment | The people, places, and things that surround and influence a person |
| heredity | The passing on of certain characteristics from earlier generations |
| neurons | nerve cells that link to each other as a result of a person's experiences |
| self-esteem | how you value yourself affects your development because it determines how hard you push yourself |
| sequence | patterns such as crawling before walking and speaking single words before sentences |
| anecdotal record | a method of writing observations in which the observer writes down all the behaviors that have to do with one issue only |
| baseline | a frequency count taken before any steps are taken to change the behavior being counted |
| confidentiality | by not revealing their observations to others, caregivers maintain this |
| developmental checklist | a method of writing observations in which the observer identifies a series of specific skills or behaviors that a child of a certain age should master and checks offf those that are observed in a particular child |
| frequency count | a method of writing observation in which the observer tallies how often a certain behavior occurs |
| running record | a method of writing observations in which the observer writes down for a set period of time everything observed about a particular child, group, or teacher |
| subjective | using personal opinions or feelings, rather than facts, to judge or describe things |
| objective | using facts, not personal feelings or prejudices to describe things |
