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| caregiver | A person who takes responsibility for raising children on a long-term or short-term basis. |
| parenting | The responsibility of caring for a child in order to promote the child's development. |
| cooperative play | The social development skill in which preschool children seek out play groups of children. |
| development tasks | The skills and abilities that children master during each stage of their development. |
| eye-hand coordination | The ability of the eyes, hand, and arm muscles to work together to make complex movements. |
| inclusion | The practice of placing children who have disabilities with those who are not together in classrooms for all or part of the schoold day. |
| large-motor skills | Abilities that depend on controlling large muscles of the body, such as those in the arms and legs. |
| morality | An understanding about what is right and what is wrong. |
| object permanence | The concept in which an infant learns that people or things exist even when they are gone from sight. |
| parallel play | Behavior in which toddlers play alongside one another, rather than together. |
| reflexes | An automatic, involuntary response. |
| small-motor skills | Abilities that depend on control of small muscles, such as in the hands and fingers. |
| childproof | Making safe for children. |
| dehydrated | Having had all the liquid removed. |
| first aid | Emergency care or treatment given right away to an ill or injured person. |
| heimlich maneuver | The action taken to aid a person who is choking. |
| immunizations | Vaccines developed to prevent specific diseases. |
| time-out | The child is required to sit quietly for a period of time |
| active play | Activities that are primarily physical and employ large-motor skills. |
| distract | Lead them away from something they shouldn't do. |
| facilitate | Help bring about play without controlling what the child does. |
| quiet play | Activities that engage the mind and small-motor skills and do not call for much movement. |
| sensory toys | Objects that stumulate the senses with different textures, shapes, sounds, adn colors. |
| emotional maturity | Fully developed emotions, or feelings, and the ability to handle them well. |
| fetus | An unborn child. |
| financial stability | The ability to meet everyday living cost. |
| premature | When a child is born before they are completely developed. |
| prenatal care | Care for the mother and their baby before birth. |
