childhood

IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdhʊd

Examples of "childhood" in Sentences

Increased fat in childhood is a known risk for being overweight in adulthood.
The term childhood obesity is most often used to describe the rising problem of childhood overweight.
I doubt that it gave any noticeable benefit - making up for what has been missed in childhood is very difficult.
So much for the notion that “chubbiness” in childhood is something that is cute and just a sign of a “healthy” appetite.
Like many others of the past few generations, my introduction to the works of Lewis Carroll came to me in childhood from the hegemony of Walt Disney.
At the time, the term childhood obesity was not making headlines, but the running community, usually ahead of the curve when it comes to health issues, felt that kids were in need of an extra push to get out and work their bodies.
Inasmuch as the symptoms of this latter come to differ from those of childhood proper, not abruptly, but gradually, the first years, at least, of youth will often come under our consideration, and I shall speak of this period of life as the _third period of childhood_.
If we consider how essential to such a masterpiece is inoculation of belief in the tender age of childhood, the system of missions appears no longer merely as the height of human importunity, arrogance, and impertinence, but also of absurdity; in so far as it does not confine itself to people who are still in the stage of _childhood_, such as the Hottentots, Kaffirs,