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childcentric

childcentric adjective: focused on or oriented toward children.

Adjective

childcentric (comparative more childcentric, superlative most childcentric)

  1. Focused on or oriented toward children.
    • The tradition of embracing a childcentric view of development dates from Rousseau (1762/1948) and has been reinforced not only by the writings of Freud (1905), but by the contributions of many other preeminent theorists such as Piaget (1936/1974) and Bowlby (1982).2002, Margie E. Lachman, Handbook of Midlife Development, page 281
    • She sees Kylie, the central character in an Australian TV series, as an example of 'childcentric' comedy and links her to the Australian tradition of irreverence for authority, bom of its colonial history.2019, George E.C. Paton, Chris Powell, Stephen Wagg George E.C. Paton, Chris Powell, Stephen Wagg, The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues, page 1973

Forms of childcentric

comparativemore childcentric
superlativemost childcentric

Origin of childcentric

From child + -centric.

Questions about childcentric

What does childcentric mean?
Childcentric means focused on or oriented toward children.
What part of speech is childcentric?
Childcentric is an adjective.

Words near childcentric in the dictionary

  1. childcare
  2. childcarer
  3. childcarers
  4. childcares
  5. childcaring
  6. childcentric
  7. childcrowing
  8. childe
  9. Childebert
  10. childed
  11. childer

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