... to most people. When expressed, childhood is always associated with happiness, carefree and being under protection. In the Webster's Third International Dictionary, this example was given: a happy childhood but an adulthood fraught with troubles; giving us a rough idea that childhood is meant to be different from the other stages of our life and as an unproblematic period of innocence, freedom, limited responsibility and minimal obligations (Postman, 1982: Winn, 1983). This romanticism of childhood, however, does not apply to the children outside the minority world and certainly not children in the medieval period. Why is that? In this essay, I will discuss about the different concepts of childhood between the medieval and modern world, between the minority and majority world and between different gender groups in the same society; and show that the definition of childhood does not always the same, it changes over time and place. ...

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