How does your behavior as a child effect your adult behavior?

Answer 1

Your behavior as a child influences who you are as an adult. Not to say that if you are a spoiled little princess you will remain one throughout your adult life, but your childhood behavior influences your experiences, whether you were outgoing or shy, which taught you life lessons. For example: you had wonderful math teachers as a child until 8th grade and did well above average (a perfectionist), in 8th grade you had a mean teacher who made you feel dumb in math, ever since you have hated math in every aspect and have not done near as well in it (hard forgiver). Also: your parents got a divorce when you were young because your father cheated on your mother, this led to you having a distrust of men as well as automatically profiling every divorced man you meet when you grew up. I know these examples are a bit dramatic, but things that happened to you as a child extreme but I hope it helped some

Answer 2

A lot! Let's say you were very passive and quiet as a child and always around adults....it is more than likely you may become a very opinionated and more aggressive individual. Being you were as they say "children are to be seen and not heard." I was very quiet and soft spoken as a child...in my teen years I started talking back especially to my mother because my father was always the quiet one. I saw her as the big mouth...and the one who gave the orders. she never said she was sorry for anything that i can remember even to this day...and i am now 49! i have almost always admitted to my children when i am wrong..and i do apologize. We as adults change some things we disliked as how we were treated as a child..but some things stay with us. We can't blame our parents really though because they were children once too. No one has a perfect childhood....So all I can say is that we can change the things we didn't like into a positive message when we are adults...at least some of them...can't expect to change everything some things just stay with you...either move on and stop blaming or just forget and forgive better said than done.!

Answer 3

Well during childhood you are learning a variety of behaviors from your parents, peers, and just in general the people around you. In addition, early on your personality is being developed through different societal influences. There are a number of studies that show the way we act in childhood is closely relaed to how we will respond to situations as adults. For instance, if a child has an irritable temperament it is highly likely that he or she was irratable and difficult to soothe as a baby and as an adult may be easily agitated or may even seem to be on edge all the time.

Hope this helps...

Answer 4

well if you "learn to lie " as a kid .... you still do it as an adult..
I think that how you learn and percieve things as a child.. is deeply imbedded in your mind as an adult. How you deal and cope with things as a child..... helps you to deal and cope as a adult. If you are never taught to cope as a child ..your not going to cope as an adult. I think as a child you need a strong parental figure to help you in a safe enivoronment to grow up. But lifes a work in progress . and its hard to clean up some times after a bad childhood.

Answer 5

I think that when you are a child you blindly believe anything adults tell you. Years later, you may find it very difficult to shake off beliefs instilled by your parents.

Also, from your environment, you may or may not be exposed to violence, bad manners, disrespectfulness etc.

A great example is the story of Buddha, who supposedly didn't even know about death and wordly affairs until his late teens

Answer 6

Monkey see monkey do to a point!
when you grow up you gain Habits! Habits run abut 80 % of yourlife!
you pick up Habits threw rolemodles or people your around alot!
So ifyou had a friend, a family memeber, a teacher, with highblood presure and they reacted in a stressful manor!
even thow your just a child and your blood pressure is fine! you think that is the way to handle thigns! there for you start to use it on things you test the ground with it! your unconciousness/Habit wil say "i'm alive" "this is good"
Then you do it again and you build your habit! Bamb now your Habit or unconciousness is thinking it has to act this way to stay alive you condished yourself threw living your life and being yourself! WOW messed up! But habits can change!

Hope that helps
Mad luv

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Answer 9

Confidence level, defensiveness, how outgoing you may be, what you may have learned to avoid or seek, sociability, level of 'humility', compassion-empathy, ....

Answer 10

One thing that can affect your behavior is base on the theroy of Erik Erikson 8 stages of life.
1. Infancy: Birth to 18 Months
If we pass successfully through this period of life, we will learn to trust that life is basically okay and have basic confidence in the future. If we fail to experience trust and are constantly frustrated because our needs are not met, we may end up with a deep-seated feeling of worthlessness and a mistrust of the world in general.
2. Early Childhood: 18 Months to 3 Years
During this stage we learn to master skills for ourselves. Not only do we learn to walk, talk and feed ourselves, we are learning finer motor development as well as the much appreciated toilet training. Here we have the opportunity to build self-esteem and autonomy as we gain more control over our bodies and acquire new skills, learning right from wrong. And one of our skills during the "Terrible Two's" is our ability to use the powerful word "NO!" It may be pain for parents, but it develops important skills of the will.
It is also during this stage, however, that we can be very vulnerable. If we're shamed in the process of toilet training or in learning other important skills, we may feel great shame and doubt of our capabilities and suffer low self-esteem as a result.
3. Play Age: 3 to 5 Years
During this period we experience a desire to copy the adults around us and take initiative in creating play situations. We make up stories with Barbie's and Ken's, toy phones and miniature cars, playing out roles in a trial universe, experimenting with the blueprint for what we believe it means to be an adult. We also begin to use that wonderful word for exploring the world—"WHY?" If we're frustrated over natural desires and goals, we may easily experience guilt.
4. School Age: 6 to 12 Years
During this stage, often called the Latency, we are capable of learning, creating and accomplishing numerous new skills and knowledge, thus developing a sense of industry. This is also a very social stage of development and if we experience unresolved feelings of inadequacy and inferiority among our peers, we can have serious problems in terms of competence and self-esteem.
5. Adolescence: 12 to 18 Years
Up to this stage, according to Erikson, development mostly depends upon what is done to us. From here on out, development depends primarily upon what we do. And while adolescence is a stage at which we are neither a child nor an adult, life is definitely getting more complex as we attempt to find our own identity, struggle with social interactions, and grapple with moral issues.

Our task is to discover who we are as individuals separate from our family of origin and as members of a wider society. Unfortunately for those around us, in this process many of us go into a period of withdrawing from responsibilities, which Erikson called a "moratorium." And if we are unsuccessful in navigating this stage, we will experience role confusion and upheaval.

A significant task for us is to establish a philosophy of life and in this process we tend to think in terms of ideals, which are conflict free, rather than reality, which is not. The problem is that we don't have much experience and find it easy to substitute ideals for experience. However, we can also develop strong devotion to friends and causes.
6. Young adulthood: 18 to 35
In the initial stage of being an adult we seek one or more companions and love. As we try to find mutually satisfying relationships, primarily through marriage and friends, we generally also begin to start a family, though this age has been pushed back for many couples who today don't start their families until their late thirties. If negotiating this stage is successful, we can experience intimacy on a deep level.

If we're not successful, isolation and distance from others may occur. And when we don't find it easy to create satisfying relationships, our world can begin to shrink as, in defense, we can feel superior to others.
7. Middle Adulthood: 35 to 55 or 65
Now work is most crucial. Erikson observed that middle-age is when we tend to be occupied with creative and meaningful work and with issues surrounding our family. Also, middle adulthood is when we can expect to "be in charge," the role we've longer envied.

The significant task is to perpetuate culture and transmit values of the culture through the family and working to establish a stable environment. Strength comes through care of others and production of something that contributes to the betterment of society, which Erikson calls generativity, so when we're in this stage we often fear inactivity and meaninglessness.

As our children leave home, or our relationships or goals change, we may be faced with major life changes—the mid-life crisis—and struggle with finding new meanings and purposes. If we don't get through this stage successfully, we can become self-absorbed and stagnate.
8. Late Adulthood: 55 or 65 to Death
Erikson felt that much of life is preparing for the middle adulthood stage and the last stage is recovering from it. Perhaps that is because as older adults we can often look back on our lives with happiness and are content, feeling fulfilled with a deep sense that life has meaning and we've made a contribution to life, a feeling Erikson calls integrity. Our strength comes from a wisdom that the world is very large and we now have a detached concern for the whole of life, accepting death as the completion of life.

On the other hand, some adults may reach this stage and despair at their experiences and perceived failures. They may fear death as they struggle to find a purpose to their lives, wondering "Was the trip worth it?" Alternatively, they may feel they have all the answers and end with a strong dogmatism that only their view has been correct.