upbringing

n.

The rearing and training received during childhood.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: properties acquired during a person's formative years

Meaning #2: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community
  Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing

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Quotes:

"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape." - W. H. Auden

"To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself." - Josh Billings

"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights." - Thomas Carlyle

"I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." - Thomas Szasz

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - opdragelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
opvoeding

Français (French)
n. - éducation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Erziehung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανατροφή, αγωγή

Italiano (Italian)
educazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - criação (f), educação (f)

Русский (Russian)
воспитание

Español (Spanish)
n. - educación, crianza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - uppfostran, fostran

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
抚育, 教养

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 撫育, 教養

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (유아기 때의) 교육, 양육

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 養育, しつけ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تربيه, تنشئه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גידול-בנים, חינוך‬

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