Is childhood the most valuable part of human existence?

Answer 1

No, but children are though.

Answer 2

I believe so because childhood is the beginning of a longlife. You cannot return to your childhood where you live in an innocent and playful world, with no worries at all. The years of adulthood is much more than the amount of years of childhood. As a child, you learn right from wrong, discover talents, and more. So, clearly, childhood is the most valuable part of human existence.

Answer 3

Thanks for your very interesting question.

It can be a valuable experience - it can be a devastating experience.

Here is my poem.

"My Childhood"


My childhood
ridicule like barbed wire
how did the children know this word
contaminated
this word contaminated
they threw at me like a volleyball back and forth
they didn’t drop the ball
contaminated the word holds
some memories are never forgotten
would this break you, reader

That’s how I learned the power of words,
the holiness of each word
each word like a statue
each word like a holy pagan god
that’s how I know the acidity of each word

the science of brute force
the torture of ridicule
the graphic design of those childish pagan gods
Were those children my pagan gods

Dredging up these memories from the sea beds
from the mud oozing between my toes

Contaminated heard in the classroom, playground,
the street where I lived, in the elevator going home,
this word followed me wherever I went
how would you bear it, reader

No whispers, no shame
the word said out loud
without barriers
with pointed fingers
with proud laughter
how would you suffer, reader

They accused
I stand falsely accused
like Piggy in the Lord of the Flies
Now and forever the eternal outcast
Now and forever absolved from fitting in anywhere
With brute force I write these words

Answer 4

No. Having met people who have been sexually mutilated, raped, used for political purposes, neglected, abused physically, sexually or emotionally -- childhood is one of the most damaging times in our lives. Having seen children disregarded and treated as second class citizens across this planet and through our history, I would not consider this a valuable part.

No child deserves this. Let alone on a planet by a species who claims to be intelligent, special, moral, etc.

Answer 5

No, it's just one of many valuable parts of human existence.

Answer 6

Most certainly.

Politics', Public education, and Religion manipulate this group, as it is their golden period to brain wash !

The detritus created from this abuse of power is "adults" living their futures on anti-depressants to suppress the conflicts created in the sub-conscious. Fear is created when Truth and Mind-manipulation challenge each other within the sub-conscious.

Answer 7

Yes. Life is a game and children play, so children are the most alive.

Answer 8

Wasn't for me. My childhood sucked.

Answer 9

This is the first part of life, this is the part of your long journy, where you learn whats right and wrong, etc!

Answer 10

It is the most important in developing emotionaly and physically ....yes

Answer 11

It could be the most horrible one, if a stupid adult is taking control over you..