| It is traditionally believed that a person remains a child till 13-16 years, but depending on its context, it is possible to use other definitions, for example, the legal age when it is possible to buy spirits, to receive the passport, to vote in elections or the age of consent. The other way of defining whether the person has ceased to be a child is on achievement of puberty.
Sometimes we say "he is like a child" about an adult person, meaning, that he behaves in a childish manner.
A girl is a baby or child of the female gender.
A boy is baby or child of the male gender.
Development of a child is the direction of a science devoted to studying the processes and mechanisms which accompany the physical and psychological development of the baby in the course of his growing.
The word child also is used as a contrast to a parent - the people who have reached an adult age remain the children of the parents, for example: "John, who is forty six years old, is the child of Peter who is seventy years old".
Pediatrics is a direction in medicine dealing with subjects relating to the health of children from infancy till the puberty period inclusive of the ages from 0 to 21 years.
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French movie "The Class" has won at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
"The Class" tells a story about a life in a tough Paris school with
unruly pupils. What makes this win amazing is that there were no
professional actors in the movie - it was played by real pupils and
real teachers. A bunch of these happy pupils were at the Cannes'
ceremony sharing the glory of receiving the Cannes' Palme d'Or with the
film director Laurent Cantet.
This is the first time a French movie won the Cannes' Palme d'Or
since 1987 when French director Maurice Pialat won with his film
"Under Satan's Sun".
