What does childhood mean to you?

Question

What is being a kid about and what does it mean to you?

Answer 1

I think being a child is about experiencing and learning new things. Everything is exciting and new. You are learning boundaries and right from wrong. Childhood should be about innocence and adventure. I didn't have a great childhood personally but I would do anything to protect a child and their innocence.

Answer 2

Childhood Means

Answer 3

it's a very sensitive phase, charecterized by accumilating an enormous amount of simple info, it's about discovering the world around you, how it goes and stuff, it's a phase that every child should pass through, coz if not, he'll always have some deficits concerning his missing childhood...
the child should also be protected & encouraged through it all, because any minor psychological trauma might have a hidous effect in a child's future....
i had everything but a normal healthy childhood
it really affected me, i feel there are a lot of problems in my psychology....
i am now gay, i cant set priorities in life, am too messed up, never happy... that's all because of my childhood...
i dont like to remember it at all...
i cant wait to have kids of my own, and really try to offer the most suitable environment so that they can grow into normal individuals!!!!

Answer 4

Childhood, innocents,learning ,playing, feeling secure protected and loved that is what being a kid and childhood means to me

Answer 5

I guess it means being free from responsibility, but not of restrictions. At least that was the catalyst for most of what I did. My childhood was wonderful, except that I didn't have any friends. But I knew that I was going to achieve great things the whole time, so it never bothered me that much.

Answer 6

Well, unfortunantly I never had an oportunity to be a kid....And I have pretty much been on my own since I was 12....
But a childhood should be full of wonderful memories!! Getting spoiled rotten but learning responsibility at the same time...(your family doesn't have to be rich to spoil you)

Answer 7

Hope.

All children have hope until its taken away. There's a security in innocence and an optimism to keep trusting that something will happen to make it all better, if things are challenging. I think it's innate in us, like a survival instinct. The trust factor that makes children easy prey. And when that trust is violated, they're forced to "grow up" but really what they do is retreat and loose hope.

Once those trust issues are worked out and restoration of hope comes, living can be resumed, and a childlike hope restored, unlocking limitless possibility.

Answer 8

innocence fun and adventure. playing riding your bike, flying a kite, hanging with your friends. Mom's home cooking at dinner. Ice tea in the fridge and the ice cream truck! Going to church with family and knowing that I was loved. I had a great childhood! We weren't rich in money but lots of love.
I never knew we were considered poor till I was in my teens.!lol We were rich and are rich in what truly matters. God 's love and family. Growing up in a small east Tennessee mountain community was a blessing and a gift.

Answer 9

I'm not really sure. Right now I am in counseling/therapy because of a series of truamatic events that happened to me during the course of my childhood, so to me, my childhood was difficult and painful.

Answer 10

'childhood' is a relatively new concept, at least the way we understand it now in the western world - only dates to the Enlightenment...

generally, though, it's about learning your environment and what's expected of you in your continuing life; learning to deal with your society and learning your culture; developing skills and relationships to assist you in life

it's a time to be as innocent as your surroundings will allow - if you're assured of personal security (no abuse), food, clothing, shelter and peace-time, it can be pretty idyllic