Collocations for childhood - noun

carefree, good, happy
deprived, difficult, lonely, rough, traumatic, troubled, unhappy
normal
early, late, middle (esp. AmE)
From earliest childhood she'd had a love of dancing.
His health remained poor into later childhood.

have
She had a very happy childhood.

spend
He spent most of his childhood in Egypt.

recall, remember
I remembered my own childhood fondly.

survive
Her second son didn't survive childhood.

lose
Children are losing their childhoods so fast.

days, years
event, experience, memories
dream, fantasy
abuse, trauma
buddy (esp. AmE), friend, sweetheart
crush
home
nickname
disease, illness, mortality
cancer, leukaemia/leukemia, etc.
obesity

during childhood
He became diabetic during childhood.

from childhood
She still retained many friends from childhood.

in childhood
She died in childhood.

throughout childhood
He was moved from family to family throughout his childhood.

scenes from sb's childhood