Hi, I'm Rob from Woodward English
and today we're going to learn vocabulary
about the stages of life of children.
Newborn
A recently born child or animal
You can use newborn for the first month or two.
Example sentence
A newborn baby can feel small and fragile.
Infant
A baby or very young child up to the age of one year old.
Example sentence
In their first year, infants or babies learn to focus their vision, explore and learn about the world around them,
which usually involves putting everything possible into their mouths.
Toddler
A toddler is a child between the age of 1 and 3 years old.
Example sentence
The toddler was learning to paint but was making a big mess.
The word comes from the verb TO TODDLE
which means to walk unsteadily.
A toddler has normally just learned how to walk
so they end up getting into quite a lot of trouble as they're discovering their world.
In fact, in English we have an expression called the terrible twos.
The terrible twos is supposedly
when a child or toddler reaches the age of two
and they try and test their parents
by crying and throwing a tantrum.
A tantrum is a sudden uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration,
typically of a child but sometimes adults throw a tantrum too.
Preschooler
A child between the ages of 3 and 5.
It is that stage before they enter school.
Example sentence
The website was designed so that preschoolers will not
only be entertained, but they will also learn something.
This word comes from preschool
which is a type of education for children between 3 and 5.
It is before they enter school.
Sometimes it's called kindergarten.
Note: this word can also be written with a hyphen.
Child
A young person who is not yet an adult.
The plural of child is children.
You have one child and two children.
Remember there's no S at the end of children.
one child ... two children
Example sentence
We booked plane tickets for two adults and a child.
Teenager
A young person between the ages of 13 and 19.
Their name comes from the end part TEEN...
thirTEEN, fourTEEN, fifTEEN, sixTEEN, sevenTEEN, eighTEEN, nineTEEN
"twentyteen" doesn't exist so it's up to the age of 19
Example sentence
Teenagers hate having pimples but it's all a natural part of growing up.
Pimples are those things that teenagers like to squeeze... like this.
Childhood
The period of time when you were a child
or some of you are in your childhood right now,
and if you are,
enjoy your childhood.
There's plenty of time to be an adult later on.
Example sentence
We didn't realize we were making childhood memories,
we just knew we were having fun.
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