Brief Description
A young person who is not a baby anymore but isn’t a grown-up yet.
How to Talk About This Term with Young Children
Animals grow and change from babies into children and eventually adults. Children might find it interesting to know that young animals grow and learn at very different paces. For example, horses learn to walk just a few hours after they are born! They aren’t children for long! It takes human children a year or more to learn to walk .