Kenzie, Marla, and Ivy are playing dress-up. They are all princesses and have built a castle out of cardboard boxes and colored paper. What type of play are the three girls engaging in?

A child’s ability to add new vocabulary words very quickly, and often imprecisely, is called: 

School-age children typically are more self-critical than they were when they were younger.

During middle childhood, peer friendships become more intentional and intimate/close. 

No matter your family structure, frequent change, poverty, and conflict can often make function difficult.

Telling and keeping secrets is part of the culture of children.

One of Vygotsky’s most famous concepts was the zone of proximal development, which asserts that: 

A discipline technique that involves the parent talking to the child and helping the child to understand what he or she did wrong is known as _____.

Bullying differs from ordinary aggression because bullying attacks are _____.

If parents discuss sex and sexuality with their teens, they are more likely to have an earlier sexual debut.