Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
I do have a regular childhood.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Childhood is a short season.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.