childlike

01:22 Apr 29, 2019 

@ Asker

You are now making even more of a "mess" by closing the FIRST question, asked under your "normal" posting name on 27th April, just ONE DAY before this duplicate one. Please do the right thing by removing the duplicate and using only one name. BTW you have asked 66 questions under the name Patsy Florit (Thus "I used a username I hadn't used before" is untrue) and 214 under Patsyarmando. Time to delete one profile.

23:50 Apr 28, 2019 

Well that clears up that mystery. However, you should delete one of the profiles as it is not in keeping with ProZ rules, and normally an Asker would not agree with a proposed answer, Patsy! How would you not remember when it was just a few days ago that you asked the same question? Perhaps you should close this question down and use only one profile! Thanks.

23:43 Apr 28, 2019 

Im so sorry for the mess I made! I hadn`t made a question for quite a long time and when I came across the activity, I didnt remember I had already asked about it. On top of everything, I used a username I hadn´t used before. So, I'm awfully sorry about everything.

13:14 Apr 28, 2019 

You've already asked this question under a different name, and received a perfectly good answer.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english/general-conversation-greet...

06:23 Apr 28, 2019 

I think your assessment is correct: 'childike' tends to have positive connotations, 'chiildlike-innocence', naïvete, etc., whereas 'childish' is more usually negative: 'childish behaviour', infantile, puerile, etc. — behaving like a child when this is not appropriate. The only exception i can think of, where it does not necessarily carry any negative connotation, is when it is used in the sense of "that they did / that occurred when they were a child" (in the same way as we might talk about an artist's "juvenile work')