Childhood facts for kids

Boys and girls during childhood

Childhood is the period between birth and puberty. Childhood ends when a human being begins puberty. The state or period of being a child is called childhood. In many places, childhood ends at a fixed age of majority. The child becomes an adult, sometimes with a rite of passage. Another word for teenagers and adolescents is "youth".

Images for kids

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  A child playing in Warri, Nigeria

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  Children playing ball games, Roman artwork, 2nd century AD

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  Children playing the violin in a group recital, Ithaca, New York, 2011

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  Children in Madagascar, 2011

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  Child playing piano, 1984

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  Playing Children, by Song Dynasty Chinese artist Su Hanchen, c. 1150 AD.

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  The Age of Innocence c. 1785/8. Reynolds emphasized the natural grace of children in his paintings

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  Armenian scouts in 1918

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  Children play in the fountain in a summer evening, Davis, California.

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  Nepalese children playing with cats.

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  Harari girls in Ethiopia.

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  Dancing at Mother of Peace AIDs orphanage, Zimbabwe

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  Ralph Hedley, The Tournament, 1898. It depicts poorer boys playing outdoors in a rural part of the Northeast of England

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  Children in front of a movie theatre, Toronto, 1920s.

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  Children in an outdoor classroom in Bié, Angola

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  Children seated in a Finnish classroom at the school of Torvinen in Sodankylä, Finland, in the 1920s

See also

In Spanish: Infancia para niños