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  Significance: Why the concept of child or childhood is so important??? The amazingly rapid progress in the care and education of children in recent years may be attributed partly to a generally higher standard of life, but still more to an awakening of conscience. Not only is there an increasing concern for child health (it began in the last decade of the 19th century) but also a new awareness of the personality of the child as something of the highest importance. Today it is impossible to go deeply into any branch of medicine or philosophy or sociology without taking account of the contribution brought by a knowledge of child life.  Now let's discuss, what is the concept of child and childhood, what are the characteristics of childhood in brief.                   Childhood has not been defined and experienced in the same ways in all societies and at all times. According to UNICEF, childhood is the time for children to be in school and at play, to grow strong and confiden