In these essays and lectures, Karl Konig renews a viable basis for the recognition of childhood and traces its expression in detailed pictures of the phases from conception, pregnancy, and birth; the child's inner and outer world during childhood; and the three births of the human being on the way to so-called "adulthood."This book can only encourage the worthy task of being a parent, teacher, or truly caring person who deep within his or her soul longs to approach the pure essence of eternal childhood.