This, in fact, to my childish mind, was what they first seemed to be.

Perhaps there was some kind of vacuum in the childish mind, and it had to be filled up with supernatural beliefs.

How to explain this thing to simple, childish minds?

It seemed to his childish mind that this unhappiness must go on for ever.

Well, I don't feel very much removed from the childish mind.

For the childish mind, the flight is direct and unimpeded.

"Yeah, I guess my childish mind built him after some adult I'd met."

Only a childish mind pays attention to such things.

Now I, in my simple, childish mind, always thought a magnet attracted iron.

It's as though his childish mind has been wiped clean of all it once learned.