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the original anarchist: tiny, fearless, and wholly convinced the universe answers to them
means A young human being, from birth until roughly the age of puberty; also someone's offspring of any age.
from From Old English 'cild,' meaning an unborn or newly born person — originally tied to the womb itself. The plural was once 'cildru,' which is why we say 'children' (an old '-r' plural plus an extra '-en' plural piled on top, a rare double helping). It's a Germanic word with cousins in related tongues, possibly connected to a root meaning 'swelling' — as in the swell of pregnancy. Note 'childe' (with an 'e') was a separate medieval title for a young noble awaiting knighthood, as in Byron's 'Childe Harold.'
- vocab speed
- learns roughly one new word every two hours
- why questions
- asks up to 300 questions a day
- brain size
- reaches 90% adult size by age five
- laughter rate
- laughs hundreds of times daily, adults barely twenty
- fearless logic
- believes hiding their eyes makes them invisible
infant mortality rate — who data: 4.3 million children under 5 die annually, mostly preventable causes
child labor in cocoa — ivory coast: approximately 2.1 million children work in cocoa production
unicef vaccination campaign — polio: immunized over 400 million children globally since 1988
child marriage in yemen — unicef: 52% of girls married before age 18, one of world's highest rates