Abstract
Early childhood usually refers to the years that begin when an infant starts to use language, develops a sense of autonomy, and is emotionally able to establish a sense of separateness from her mother. It is at the end of this development period that children develop the ability to reason logically and are usually ready to learn, to read, and understand arithmetic processes. During these years, young children have a quite idiosyncratic way of making sense of the world that Piaget described as “preoperational thinking.” For practical purposes, early childhood usually refers to children between the ages 2 and 5, despite the reality that some children must begin school at six or seven without having achieved all of the skills that they will need to progress academically.
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Mrazek, D.A. (2013). Caregiving in Early Childhood. In: Talley, R., Montgomery, R. (eds) Caregiving Across the Lifespan. Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5553-0_2
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