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Another statistic, perhaps my favorite, is to look at childhood deaths.
So that's a factor of two reduction of the childhood death rate.
Becoming a mother gave me a totally new perspective on my own childhood, and it brought back my memories of early life in China.
Since I was a boy, in my early childhood, I always wanted to be a musician, and, thank God, I made it.
The river that was bursting with life in their childhood greets them “with a ghastly skull’s smile, with holes where teeth had been, and a limp hand raised from a hospital bed.”
I think of my childhood school days in Zimbabwe and the other kids I was in school with.
Enslaved at birth on the island of Grenada, Christophe spent his childhood being moved between multiple Caribbean islands.
In those days, one hid much else as well: grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved, and you could hug another man, then hold on for a moment, then even kiss (your fathers bristles white and stiff now).
The lap of luxury is an architectural construct of childhood, which we seek, in vain, as adults, to employ.
I'm specifically interested in things like autism, and cerebral palsy, these great childhood catastrophes.
Fifth Man: The first thing I remember ... (Sixth Man: That's how I learned, by my mother,) Fifth Man: ... from my childhood, (Sixth Man: that you should respect humans.)
(Speaks Spanish) Many years have passed since my childhood, but throughout my formal studies, I found myself drawing in the margins of my notebooks instead of paying attention to my professors.
And so, what we can see is that over the course of childhood and even into adolescence, both the cognitive system, our mind's ability to think about other minds, and the brain system that supports it are continuing, slowly, to develop.
This system takes a long time to develop, slowly throughout the course of childhood and into early adolescence.
For young people, anxiety is the most common childhood psychiatric condition.
Left untreated, anxiety in early childhood can lead to depression by adolescence.
Born in Wisconsin in 1887, O’Keeffe spent her childhood plucking wildflowers and arranging fruits to paint.
But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter and love, in a very close-knit family.
We specked it out to actually be doable with a very, very low-cost bill of materials, so that it can become a childhood companion for kids.
When I grew up, this was basically the media environment of my childhood as translated into food.
And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.
If this is true, learning a language in childhood may give you a more holistic grasp of its social and emotional contexts.
He was born in 1957, and you can imagine what his childhood looked like and felt like, and what his life has been like over the last 50 tumultuous years.
And then he turned to me, not stupidly, and he said, "What was your childhood like?"
His father was an SOB, and, in fact, he was another comedian with an unhappy childhood, but then we were off and running.
She was my childhood friend.
In fact I'll stop here, because I want to ask, and there is a lot of people who, from India of course, people who grew up spending your childhood here.
Those of you who grew up in India, do you remember in your childhood, dragonflies, swarms of dragonflies?
I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extracurriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago.
Since 2007 every other month the city closes down the busiest streets for traffic and converts it into a playground for children and childhood.
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