Childhood is the happiest time of a person´s life.

First of all I will tell you that it depends of the person , because there are persons who had a miserable childhood and there are persons who had had a wonderful one.
For me I do think that childhood is a very important stage in life beacuse is when you learn about human and moral values and that will help you for the rest of your life.
I think childhood is a time for love and be loved, is a time for play and laugh, but also is a time for learn about cause and consequences and been responsible about what you do. I think that it is the real secret for reach happiness the rest of your life.
When a child is overprotected and no body teaches him/her to be responsible about what he does. For example if a child draws the wall no mater his age he must be explained that it was wrong and take the responsability of that why not with all your love and care take a cleaning cloth and show the child how to repair the damage that he already did, even a one year boy he can understand that it was wrong, is a baby not a fool, many people thinks that children don't undrestant and don't teach team to be responsible and those children goes trough life expecting that someone got incharge of his /her happiness.
I belive childhood is an amazing stage of life a great oportunity to learn and discover the world and use the imagination to reach the unreacheable and we also have a lot to learn from children and return ourselves sometimes to that time in order to recover that abilty to simplify the problems and smile whitout a reason, the abilty for wonder when you see a bubble all of that we loose when we grow up.
My conclusion is yes childhood is a great time but if we learn how to take our life in our hand we can be happy forever no matter the difficulties with imagination and creativity we can solve any problem and learn how to be like a child for ever.
Roxana I. Talavera Castañeda