Handbook
Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence
Support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals.
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Definition
Support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals.
Coverage role
Children require coordinated care, development, safety, education, relationships, and services; parenting decisions are frequent and high impact.
Scope
Included
- developmental context
- routines and co-regulation
- positive behavior support
- learning and play
- school coordination
- health and safety navigation
- safeguarding
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosing a child
- violent or humiliating discipline
- replacing child protection or clinical services
- custody advice
- dignity-violating surveillance
Boundary rules
- Route to life.parenting-child-development when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.parenting-child-development.understand_development_context |
Understand Development Context | Relate age abilities communication temperament culture disability environment and recent change to the concern. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.design_family_routine |
Design Family Routine | Create predictable flexible routines for sleep meals school play transitions and connection. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.analyze_behavior_context |
Analyze Behavior Context | Record observable antecedents behavior consequences needs skills and environment without labels. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.plan_positive_support |
Plan Positive Support | Adjust environment teach skills reinforce desired behavior co-regulate and set proportionate limits. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.support_learning_play |
Support Learning Play | Select age-appropriate accessible interest-based activities. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.coordinate_school_care |
Coordinate School Care | Prepare strengths concerns examples goals questions accommodations and follow-up. |
capability.life.parenting-child-development.recognize_safeguarding_concerns |
Recognize Safeguarding Concerns | Detect abuse neglect dangerous behavior severe regression or persistent development concern. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.child_and_family_context |
context_profile | Child And Family Context for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.family_routine |
plan | Family Routine for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.behavior_observation_log |
ledger | Behavior Observation Log for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.positive_support_plan |
plan | Positive Support Plan for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.learning_and_play_plan |
plan | Learning And Play Plan for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.school_or_care_meeting_brief |
brief | School Or Care Meeting Brief for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.escalation_route |
decision | Escalation Route for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
artifact.life.parenting-child-development.safeguarding_concern_and_escalation_record |
decision | Safeguarding Concern And Escalation Record for Parenting and Child Development Support Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support age-appropriate caregiving, routines, learning, behavior problem-solving, school and health coordination, and safeguarding without replacing professionals. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.parenting-child-development.developmentally_appropriate_expectations |
developmentally appropriate expectations | Use for non-emergency observation, routines, learning, communication, and positive support grounded in the child and family context. | Avoid diagnosis, punitive or coercive techniques, developmental comparison without context, or delaying safeguarding and professional evaluation. |
method.life.parenting-child-development.co_regulation |
co-regulation | Use for non-emergency reflection, regulation, coping, or support activation when the person retains agency and the method fits their preferences and context. | Avoid implying diagnosis or treatment, forcing a technique, minimizing distress, or delaying crisis, abuse, or medical escalation. |
method.life.parenting-child-development.functional_behavior_observation |
functional behavior observation | Use for non-emergency observation, routines, learning, communication, and positive support grounded in the child and family context. | Avoid diagnosis, punitive or coercive techniques, developmental comparison without context, or delaying safeguarding and professional evaluation. |
method.life.parenting-child-development.positive_reinforcement_and_skill_teaching |
positive reinforcement and skill teaching | Use for non-emergency observation, routines, learning, communication, and positive support grounded in the child and family context. | Avoid diagnosis, punitive or coercive techniques, developmental comparison without context, or delaying safeguarding and professional evaluation. |
method.life.parenting-child-development.play_based_learning |
play-based learning | Use for non-emergency observation, routines, learning, communication, and positive support grounded in the child and family context. | Avoid diagnosis, punitive or coercive techniques, developmental comparison without context, or delaying safeguarding and professional evaluation. |
method.life.parenting-child-development.family_school_service_coordination |
family-school-service coordination | Use for non-emergency observation, routines, learning, communication, and positive support grounded in the child and family context. | Avoid diagnosis, punitive or coercive techniques, developmental comparison without context, or delaying safeguarding and professional evaluation. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.parenting-child-development.01_the_child_s_safety_dignity_development_voice_and_best_inte |
The child's safety dignity development voice and best interests are explicit. | escalate |
invariant.life.parenting-child-development.02_violent_humiliating_or_fear_based_discipline_is_prohibited |
Violent humiliating or fear-based discipline is prohibited. | escalate |
invariant.life.parenting-child-development.03_behavior_is_described_observably_rather_than_as_a_moral_tr |
Behavior is described observably rather than as a moral trait. | escalate |
invariant.life.parenting-child-development.04_concerns_are_referred_rather_than_diagnosed |
Concerns are referred rather than diagnosed. | escalate |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.collaborative-social, general.learning-adaptation, general.affective-self-regulation, general.diagnostic, general.ethical-normative
Life intelligences: life.health-navigation-self-care, life.learning-education-navigation, life.relationships-intimacy-conflict, life.personal-organization-administration
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
who.life_course |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
oecd.learning_compass |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: critical
- Immediate danger injury abuse neglect or exploitation.
- Persistent developmental health sensory or learning concerns.
- Custody mandated-reporting or education-rights questions.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/parenting-child-development.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7