childmind
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4ADJ.
able, certain, free, healthy, knowing, protected
VERB + CHILDMIND
continued, couldn't, ennobled, helped, invented
CHILDMIND + NOUN
adultmind, enoch, kris, robinson, thomas
PREP.
off, with
Definitions
verb
To look after children while their parents are absent.
In fact, he helped me childmind Thomas who at one time needed to relieve himself and was desperate for a toilet.
When Mum arrived, last as usual, late as usual, Rosie told her straight off she couldn't childmind me no more.
noun
The mind of a child.
Knowing how the childmind attains a certain result is worth more to a truth seeking teacher than all the tables in the Arithmetic; for having this knowledge of the childmind she is able to present such conditions and things as the mind is able to grasp and know.
There must have been two dozen of the shadow people, invented by the childmind of Enoch Robinson, who lived in the room with him.
That aspect of one's psyche that is childlike.
In a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another. When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence.
To get back our enthusiasm, we first need to remind ourselves of the devil-may-care attitude of our childmind.
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6In fact, he helped me childmind Thomas who at one time needed to relieve himself and was desperate for a toilet.
WiktionaryWhen Mum arrived, last as usual, late as usual, Rosie told her straight off she couldn't childmind me no more.
WiktionaryHowever, Dan's mother continued to childmind Kris, with the school bus dropping him at the Jeries' household, from where he would later be collected by whichever parent had time.
WiktionaryKnowing how the childmind attains a certain result is worth more to a truth seeking teacher than all the tables in the Arithmetic; for having this knowledge of the childmind she is able to present suc
WiktionaryThere must have been two dozen of the shadow people, invented by the childmind of Enoch Robinson, who lived in the room with him.
WiktionaryIn a healthy psyche the childmind and the adultmind interplay and assist one another. When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in i
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