child guidance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of child guidance
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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His mother, Betty, was a successful novelist; his father was a founder of Britain’s child guidance clinics.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
Weiss spoke English and, decamping to America, found a position as a child guidance associate at Columbia University in New York.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2018
To the U. S. praise was extended for its child guidance clinics.
From Time Magazine Archive
HEW contains an unlikely collection of agencies whose activities range all the way from operating a school for the blind to child guidance, from caring for social security to financing cancer research.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has studied neither the child nor her own powers of child guidance.
From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)
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