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- Child growth standards - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO Child Growth StandardsThis web site presents the WHO Child Growth Standards These standards were developed using data collected in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study The site presents documentation on how the physical growth curves and motor milestone windows of achievement were developed as well as application tools to support implementation of the standards
- Plural of first child - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
If multiple people each have a first child, are those children collectively referred to as first children or first childs? The former seems more consistent with the usual plural of child, but the l
- Weight-for-age - World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO provides expanded tables for constructing national health cards based on weight-for-age standards, aiding in child growth monitoring and assessment
- Filling out forms that ask for “relationship with”
3 Forgive me for being perhaps nitpicky here, but my guess is that those forms you fill for your son really mean "relationship to child" not "relationship with child"
- Violence against children
Types of violence against children Most violence against children involves at least one of six main types of interpersonal violence that tend to occur at different stages in a child’s development Maltreatment (including violent punishment) involves physical, sexual and psychological emotional violence; and neglect of infants, children and adolescents by parents, caregivers and other
- synonyms - Is there a word for an only child? - English Language . . .
I don't think there is a single term for that, only child is the more common expression used in the English language: In a family with multiple offspring, first-borns may be briefly considered only children and have a similar early family environment, but the term only child is generally applied only to those individuals who never have siblings (Wikipedia) Ngram shows usages of the expression
- Application tools - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO AnthroPlus is a software for the global application of the WHO Reference 2007 for 5-19 years to monitor the growth of school-age children and adolescents To show the continuity with the WHO Child Growth Standards for 0-5 years these are included in AnthroPlus for the three indicators that apply The software opens by default in English but can be changed to run in French, Spanish and
- etymology - When did kid start to mean child? - English Language . . .
My dear child Child, come here He is but a child! But I don't see kid In fact, I didn't see kid even in the contemporary work A Series of Unfortunate Events when I was reading it (unless I missed it) Children was still used there So, my question is: When did "kid" become used to mean "child"? Is it less formal to use "kid" than "child"?
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