toddlerhood

plural toddlerhoods

1. uncountableusuallyThe period of one's life in which one is a toddler (“a young child who has started walking but not fully mastered it, typically between one and three years old”).First known use early 20th c.

   We’ve been friends ever since toddlerhood.

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   [T]he stage at which mother showed herself to her infant in her true colours was whilst breast feeding was still going on, and any difficulties that belonged to toddlerhood had their roots reaching back to this stage.

   1937, E[leanor] Joyce Partridge et al., The Management of Early Infancy, London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, →OCLC, page 25

   And, like most boring mothers, I fret about schools. Where I grew up, everyone went to the nearest village primary school and the local comprehensive. But here, since the earliest days of Isobel’s toddlerhood, my friends and acquaintances have been engaged in an arms race.

   2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2021

   Synonyms: toddlerdom