Aaa: Believe it, there is nothing worse than being a child in a teaching or medical environment. Especially authoritarian.

bbb: I would cut it down to "there is nothing worse than being a child" :-) The hardest time in a human life.

ccc: The main thing is not to reduce to "there is nothing worse than being" =)

Bbb: Buddhists have reduced and do not complain :-)