Through their perceptions and narratives, this research aims to approach the conception of childhood from the perspective of a targeted group of 8 to 10-year-old boys and girls. To achieve this, the following question has been formulated: How and what do 8 to 10-year-old boys and girls express in their narratives about their perceptions of childhood today? To structure the research, explorations, and elaborations were conducted on childhood, child subjectivity, experience, perception, child narrative, and an approach to the socio-historical analysis of childhood in Colombia.