childlore

thumb|Syrian children playing in a New York City street

Childlore is a folklore or folk culture that focuses specifically on children typically between the ages of 6 and 15. As a branch of folklore, childlore is concerned with those activities which are learned and passed on by children to other children; it excludes the stories and tales told and spread by adults. Childlore can include games, riddles, rhymes, oral stories, codes, fantasies, jokes, and superstitions created by children. In western culture, most folklorists are concerned with children after they join their peers in primary school or kindergarten. The traditions of childlore generally stop after children leave elementary school or primary school, which coincides with puberty and adolescence, and the end of early childhood.