Parenting Challenge

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1.	Approximately how many new words is a 2-year-old capable of learning per day (not necessarily to speak, but to understand)?

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2.	What is generally a good age to introduce solid foods to a baby?

3 months

6 months

8 months

12 months

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3.	When do experts say is the best time to get babies shoes?

At birth

When they start crawling

When they start walking

When they start walking outside

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4.	Which of the following is the average 4-year-old not yet able to do?

Skip on one foot

Tie shoes

Draw a figure of a person

Throw a ball overhand

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5.	When are most children physically (but not necessarily emotionally) ready to start potting training?

12 months

12-17 months

18-24 months

24-30 months

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6.	When do children begin to identify more strongly with certain people in their lives than with others (and react to "strangers")?

Immediately after birth

3-5 months

6-9 months

10-12 months

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7.	Young children eat up to _____ times as much as adults in proportion to their body weight.

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8.	How long do experts recommend you breastfeed a baby?

At least 6 months

At least 1 year

At least 1 year and a half

As long as possible

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9.	Which of the following is NOT true about breastfeeding mothers?

A few glasses of wine before breastfeeding is fine.

They need to eat more - about 200 calories a day more.

Consuming large amounts of coffee, tea, and caffeinated soda may agitate the baby.

Medications can make their way into the milk.

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10.	When does the awareness of sex differences begin to appear?

Soon after birth

5 -10 months

11-16 months

17-22 months

I don't know

The amount of hours you sleep isn't as important as the quality of your sleep.

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."
Kurt Cobain

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Parenting Challenge