childhood, n.All

Childhood is a kind of paradise.

Childhood is experienced in retrospect and thus it appears slow because every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Childhood is a short season.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

Childhood is, from an evolutionary perspective, a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

Childhood is endowed with its own seeing, thinking and feeling, and for this reason, nature wants children to be children before men.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.