How our childhood experiences shape us as adults.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. It is no new news that our childhood is like the foundation on which we live today as adults; this is why parents and guardians are advised to make sure that kids under their custody get the best childhood experience because whatever experience they have under an adult comes back to haunt them or guide them when they become adults. Our childhood experiences either act as a guide, or they haunt us. There are people with messed-up childhoods who find it very difficult to do a lot of things.

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Our childhood either has a positive effect on us or a negative one, whichever one we either have to live with or try to change, especially in cases where it has a negative effect. The truth is that it is very difficult to change the way your childhood must have affected you, which is why it is advised that childhood effects should be positive, but some individuals were not lucky to have one; some people live with childhood traumas, and it has affected their relationships and friendships and has caused them a lot. A messed-up childhood is something one can spend a lifetime trying to correct or change, and sometimes they end up not being able to because whatever effect childhood has on us is always deep-rooted and nearly impossible to change.

Childhood is the stage of life where we learn it all: how to manage emotions, handle stress, and also how to stay resilient, for we do not know what the future holds, while adulthood is just that stage where we perfect all that we have learned as kids, and life, being life, gives us the opportunity to put it all into practice. So if we do not learn all that we need to learn as kids, it simply means life as an adult will be way more difficult than it was supposed to be. If as a child you did not learn how to master and regulate your emotions, it simply means that when the troubles of adulthood come knocking, you will break down in no time.

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For me, I feel how we behave as adults totally depends on our childhood experiences; how we were raised, how we were loved, and how we were treated as kids actually determine how we turn out as adults. A spoiled or improperly raised child will grow up and become a spoiled adult too and will only end up affecting the society and world negatively; childhood is the foundation, and adulthood is where we either enjoy the foundation laid or suffer if the foundation laid is faulty. Our childhood experiences are what help to shape how we regulate our emotions, how we relate with people, and, most of all, how we behave; all these are as a result of our childhood experiences.