childhood
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We spoke about why kids are depressed, what parents can do about it and how to make childhood great again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
She has fond childhood memories of playing with a color-changing Hello Kitty plush toy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The former paratrooper set off in November 1998, expecting his walk back to his childhood home, where his mother still lives, to take about 12 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
McConnell blamed his slow recovery on the “lingering effects of childhood polio.”
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Between only one job interview this summer and his childhood friend’s funeral, I was afraid I’d never see him laugh again.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
As if their unconventional childhoods weren’t troubled enough, Asa and Yuru’s twinship comes with another heavy burden: saving the world.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Over one-third of American children and a staggering 53 percent of Black children will be subjected to a child protective services investigation at some point in their childhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Rothwell's role in Coronation Street had been written with him in mind - as the creator Tony Warren had worked with him during their childhoods on BBC Radio's Children's Hour.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Yet his siblings, with the same parents and same unsettled childhoods, followed a more conventional path in adulthood.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
