Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died of common childhood diseases.

But when john reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates.

Cathy suffered some terrible illness in her early childhood.

Childhood activities help a child develop responsibility, independence, confidence and competence - the underpinnings of emotional health.

He spent much of his childhood in France where he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures.

He was envied by others in his childhood.

Our model of what a garden should be often goes back to childhood.

People are living longer because more people survive childhood.

Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden.

Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

It was based on concepts developed at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College by Susan Gray, the legendary pioneer in early childhood education research.

A look at what goes on in most classrooms these days makes it abundantly clear that when people think about education, they are not thinking about what it feels like to be a child, or what makes childhood an important and valuable stage of life in its own right.

One of the great problems of modern childhood is ADHD, now increasingly and expensively treated with drugs.

But taking a cue from health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer more-healthful menu options for children at a time when concern is growing over the role of fast food in childhood obesity(肥胖症).

They had known each other since childhood.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed (着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Careme's childhood was one part tragedy, equal part mystery.

If not cultivated, it will not survive: Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child and adult.

It is impossible that a single shot of education, administered in childhood and early adulthood, will be able to support a sustained, 60-year career.

It is impossible that a single shot of education, administered in childhood and early adulthood,will be able to support a sustained, 60-year career.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

And because those influence educational success and later earnings, early childhood experiences cast a lifelong shadow.

Currently, there’s mounting criticism of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which fights childhood obesity by encouraging youngsters to become more physically active, and it signed on singer Beyonce and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, both of whom also endorse sodas which are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.

Regarding gender role building, social learning theories attach greater importance to socialization in one's childhood than in their adulthood or later life.

He has better memories of childhood.

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.

It is most certainly shaped by a person's culture as well as how they were raised in their childhood.

Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade.

Terrie Moffitt's paper on \The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later\ is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The data on nutrition and childhood development has been slowly coming together for decades.

The most powerful influences occur during early childhood and include both what happened to you directly, and what those around you did and said in your presence.

Michelle Obama has launched a high-visibility campaign against childhood obesity, even claiming that it represents our greatest national security threat.

Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.