Secretary Clinton praised efforts to fight Islamic extremism in Indonesia, where Barack Obama spent part of his childhood.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

During his childhood, the future senator attended ten different schools in several cities before he started college.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

His family was extremely poor. During his childhood, he sang in church with his parents.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

In this work Mister Wolfli turned his sad childhood into a magical travel story.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

That's his motto. He has great advice: 'don't set the kitchen on fire.'" Author Mohammed Naseehu Ali shared childhood memories of his mother's kitchen in Ghana.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

Many of K'naan's songs are influenced by his childhood in Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

And Mecklenburg says many of the things Rockwell sees in Rockwell's pictures remind him of his own childhood in Modesto,California.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Jimmy and his sister Patricia also spent much of their childhood in foster homes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30