Parenting quiz

More questions about Parenting

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1. 1 Easy

   What routine shots protect young children from diseases?

   Answer: Vaccines

   Why: Vaccines introduce harmless antigens so a child's immune system can recognize and fight off future infections.

2. 2 Medium

   Why can parents fix child-rearing mistakes at any age?

   Answer: Consistent repairs rebuild trust anytime

   Why: Ed Tronick filmed mothers and babies out of step about 70 percent of the time; repair, not perfection, is what builds trust.

3. 3 Hard

   Which US state has the highest average cost of childcare?

   Answer: Massachusetts

   Why: Infant center care there averages about $26,700 a year; only Washington DC costs more, and DC is not a state.

4. 4 Easy

   What caregiver action releases swallowed air after a baby feeds?

   Answer: Burping

   Why: Burping is near-universal advice, yet the only randomized trial of it, with 71 babies, found no reduction in colic.

5. 5 Medium

   Why is a newborn baby's first poop black and sticky?

   Answer: Meconium comes from womb debris

   Why: Meconium is almost odourless: a tarry mix of swallowed amniotic fluid, lanugo hair, mucus and bile that babies pass within a day or two.

6. 6 Hard

   Which caregiver behavior best predicts a child's vocabulary size?

   Answer: Conversational turns

   Why: Back-and-forth exchanges predict language growth better than the sheer number of words a child hears.