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Last Updated: Mar 23, 2024 • Article History

children in preschool

children in preschool

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Key People:: Jerome Bruner; Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky; Bruno Bettelheim; Melanie Klein; Anna Freud

Related Topics:: children’s literature; childhood disease and disorder; human body; infant and toddler development; child development

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childhood, period of the human lifespan between infancy and adolescence, extending from ages 1–2 to 12–13. See child development.

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