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Definition of "early childhood" []

  • A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards. (noun)

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Use "early childhood" in a sentence
  • "Now chairman and chief executive of French construction company Vinci SA, he spent his early childhood in West Africa, where his father worked for a French company that helped lay the infrastructural foundations for the newly independent Ivory Coast."
  • ""Thus," says Dr. Coriat, "the beginning of stammering in early childhood ... is caused by the action of unconscious repressed thoughts upon the speech mechanism, the repressed thought obtruding itself in speech.""
  • "Fortified with our understanding of neurodevelopmental functions and differences, we can affirm a new mind-based humanism within a society that values, respects, and preserves all kinds of minds, beginning during early childhood and continuing through our entire life spans."
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