1) Adolescence 2) Babyhood 3) Early life 4) Early stages 5) Early years 6) English-language journal 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Exclusively Anglo word 9) Formative years 10) Immaturity 11) Infancy 12) Pop ballad 13) Time of life 14) Word of purely Anglo origin 15) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 16) Young years 1) Boyhood 2) Education 3) Girlhood 4) Infancy 5) Maidenhood 6) Maidhood 7) Puerility 8) Youth 
• (n.) The commencement; the first period. • (n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. • (n.) Children, taken collectively.
(from the article `Tolstoy, Leo`) ...Tolstoy wrote some of his most touching letters to her. Despite the constant presence of death, Tolstoy remembered his childhood in idyllic terms. ...period of the human lifespan between infancy and adolescence, extending from ages 1–2 to 12–13. See child development.[23 related articles]
The period of life between infancy and puberty. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... 
Child'hood (chīld'hod) noun [ Anglo-Saxon cildhād ; cild child + -hād . See Child , and -hood .] 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. « I have walked ...
Type: Term Pronunciation: chīld′hud Definitions: 1. The period of life between infancy and puberty.
Childhood: (1) The time for a boy or girl from birth until he or she is an adult. (2) The more circumscribed period of time from infancy to the onset of puberty. During childhood, the potential of a unique human person must be nurtured by parents or parent figures.
[n] - the time of person`s life when they are a child 2. [n] - the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
puerility noun the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
the state or period of being a child. · the early stage in the existence of something: the childhood of the human race.