childhood

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“Throughout my entire childhood, he was always making music.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Hansen once cited a childhood encounter with a photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon as the seed of his passion for space exploration.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I learned my family was undocumented at my birth and on through my early childhood.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Researchers spend "days, weeks, in some cases months" in the dense forestry of North America, says Lewis, "with many spurred on by childhood encounters or brought into the pursuit by someone close to them".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Every adult is shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French