Top of children facts

Here is Top of children facts for you: 

1. ‘Children’ is one of only three words in modern English which are plurals formed by adding the old suffix -en. The others are brethren and oxen.

2. Worldwide, the average woman gives birth to an estimated 6.89 children.

3. The highest fertility rate is in Niger, where women give birth to an average of 7.58 children. The lowest is Singapore at 0.8 per woman.

4. The average girl child reaches half her adult height at 18 months. For a boy it is 24 months.

5. According to research at Sheffield University in 2008: “Clowns are universally disliked by children”.

6. “Childhood: the period of life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.” (Ambrose Bierce, A Devil’s Dictionary)

7. Twelfth Night is the only Shakespeare play that does not contain the words ‘child’ or ‘children’.

8. According to research for National Teething Week (which is this week), 68 per cent of parents have left a public place because of a crying child.

9. According to a recent survey, ten per cent of UK children learn to use a touch screen by age two.

10. “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” (UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child)

11. Childhood development depends on the interaction between genes and environmental variables. For example, a child may have the genes to grow tall, but if it doesn’t have the proper nutrition, it may never achieve full height.

12. The development of language occurs in four stages: 1) babbling stage, 2) single-word stage, 3) two-word stage, and 4) multi-word stage.

13. Researchers suggest that the majority of parents fall within one of four different parenting styles: 1) authoritarian, 2) authoritative (which is more democratic than authoritarian, 3) permissive, and 4) uninvolved parenting. Of these four, authoritative parenting tends to result in children who are more happy, capable, and successful.

14. While all children grow and develop in similar patterns, each child develops at his or her own pace.

15. Permissive parenting tends to result in children who rank low in happiness and self-regulation. They are more likely to experience problems with authority and perform poorly in school.