(North America) Of education or parenting: focused on each child's individual needs and personality, rather than instilling the same knowledge, morality, etc.
(North America) Of education or parenting: focused on each child's individual needs and personality, rather than instilling the same knowledge, morality, etc. into all children.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(chiefly, North America, idiomatic) One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something.
(North America) Of an activity or event: to be attended by a mother with her young child.
(countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
(transitive) To educate children at home, that is, at a private domestic place, in lieu of sending them to a public school or private educational institution.
(Internet slang, derogatory) An incompetent, unsuccessful middle-class or upper-class child of wealthy and influential parents.