| A | B |
|---|
| parenting | the process of caring for children and helping them grow and learn |
| deprivation | the lack of healthy, nurturing environment |
| discipline | the task of helping children learn to behave in acceptable ways |
| conscience | an inner sense of what is right |
| self-discipline | the ability to control one's own behavior |
| positive reinforcement | a response that encourages a particular behavior |
| negative reinforcement | a response that tends to discourage a particular behavior from being repeated |
| time out | short period of time spent sitting away from the presence of others or center of activity |
| nanny | a specially trained person employed to provide live-in child care services |
| family child care | childcare arrangement in which a small number of children are cared for in the caregiver's home |
| play group | arrangement in which a group of parents take turns caring for each others children in their own homes |
| child care center | facility designed to provide care for children of working parents |
| preschool | a child care center that provides educational programs, usually for children ages 3-5 |
| parent cooperatives | child care facility in which part of the supervision is provided by the parents of enrolled children, who take turns donating their services |
| head start | child care program designed to help lower income families and disadvantaged children function effectively at home, in school, and the community |
| Montessori | educational facility for 3-6 yr olds that provides special learning materials which children are free to explore on their own |
| latchkey children | children who are unsupervised from the time they come home from school until their parents return from work. |
