The phrase "childhood self" refers to the person we were when we were young children. It represents the way we saw the world, our interests, and our feelings during that time. Full definition
A gradient of childhood self - control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. (my.happify.com)
Researchers concluded childhood self - control predicts a 4 to 5 percentage point higher probability of having a pension. (verywellfamily.com)
Beginning with the opening episode of the narrator's traumatic bedtime separation from his mother, she would have seen her own childhood self in the work's ultrasensitive protagonist. (joanmitchellfoundation.org)