Childishness - Is it a Virtue or a Vice?

Is Childishness a Virtue? A Virtue is behaviour that improves a person’s soul. That is to say, it brings them closer to God and to goodness. A Vice is the opposite of a virtue. These things must be settled first if we are to speak about whether or not Childishness is a virtue or a vice.

Modern society is a post-innocence society and because of this, the definitions of childhood and childishness have been skewed and perverted. I am writing this in order to disentangle many issues for myself first and then for readers. I can feel the right answer in my bones but I only need to write well to articulate it. I wonder if you can sympathise with this feeling?

Childhood should neither be put on a pedestal nor should it be vilified. At different times in history, both have been done. I believe today we are living in the former kind of extreme in which childhood is put on a pedestal as an ideal state of being, ironically, even as all innocence is routinely robbed of children. In a way, the modern world moves beyond these extremes to act out the worst of both. Modern people seem to be wearing the skin of childhood without any of its redeeming spirit.