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Discover LudwigThe phrase "childhood self" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person's identity or sense of self during their childhood years. Example: "As an adult, she had come a long way from her timid childhood self who was afraid to speak up in class."
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A grown man meeting his childhood self, or the child confronting the man he will become?
The girl in the circle was her childhood self, lost and lonely in space.
I was particularly repelled by the idea of feeling pity for my childhood self.
The parents whose relationship to my childhood self I had presumably hired the therapist to replay?
He once wrote ironically of his childhood self, that he was "coming on well as an honorary Englishman".
Regarding his childhood self as a loser, Russ doesn't want any part of the little boy in him now.
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Indeed, childhood self-control is twice as important as intelligence in predicting academic achievement.
He quickly outgrew childhood self-consciousness about signing in public and would sometimes act as an interpreter in school or at church.
Similarly, Moffit et al. (2011) use the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study to show that childhood self-control predicts health status, substance use, and criminal behaviour.
Early childhood self-regulation develops in two phases, i.e., from birth to age two (infancy and toddlerhood), and ages three to five (preschool and pre-k; Murray et al. 2016b; see Tables 1, 2).
Participants from Canadian cities have less adverse childhood conditions and better childhood self-reported health.
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