Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty).

Noun

childhood (plural childhoods)

1. (uncountable) The state of being a child.
2. The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
3. (by extension) The early stages of development of something.

Derived terms

• second childhood

Quotes regarding Childhood, a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between Infant|infancy and adulthood.

See also: Children.

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
  • Guardian by Brian Aldin, 1974

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