Introduction Childhood is an experience any human born alive, is bound to go through. No matter your social standing today: either poor or rich, big or small, tall or short famous or not, you definitely cannot the fact that you were once a child. To some, it is an experience they would love to go over and over again, but to some, it was a painful moment they would never want to neither go through again in their life nor wish it for someone else. The big question is why. Who Is a Child All over the world, people with different perceptions, in different geographical locations and with different backgrounds, give various and diverse definitions as to who a child is or who can be referred to as a child. In trying to generalize the definition of a child, I would say a child is anyone who has not yet attained puberty, maturity, or the age of legal majority. In other words who is not recognized by the laws of the land into which he/she is born as a full-grown or matured citizen. Factors and How They Affect Childhood Experience Earlier on, we realized there were two very contrasting perceptions or memories of childhood. Now, this is because so many factors or conditions exist that affect or can have a very serious impact on one’s childhood and depending on how they do so, is what can either make once childhood is a nice experience or a bitter one. These factors can be socially, politically, or economically motivated. These factors could affect childhood directly or indirectly. When we take social factors, for instance, these could be factors originating from one relationship with social institutions such as the family, school, church amongst others. The family is one of the very first social institutions a child comes into contact with within the early stages of childhood. It is therefore important that families create a very conducive environment for the proper physical and psychological development of a child. Families can however do so by showing love, concern, care to children born into the family. These three words “LOVE, CONCERN, AND CARE” mentioned in the latter sentence although simple, means and entails a lot. Unfortunately, these things are the things most families lack, so how then do they show this to the younger generations born into the family. One very important thing that needs to be noted is that childhood is a very important stage and developing good characters and attitudes (it could also be bad ones if care is not taken0 and so good training must be given a child during childhood if he/she is to live a good and meaningful life in society in the future. Schools and religious institutions (examples could be churches mosques est.) also help in a way in instilling some kind of discipline, skills, and religious norms into children which also goes a long way in nurturing the child to have a brighter future. Political and economic conditions, however, are typical examples of factors that affect childhood indirect, in other words, what exactly they do is to first of all affect institutions or persons indirect relationship or link with the child and since the child depends on these individuals and institutions the effect whether god or bad is somehow tran