No matter how old you get, your experiences as a child stay with you and color, unless your actively work on it, your decisions.
2007-01-22 03:58:37 · 6 answers · asked by sweetsmile 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
They can have power over you your entire life. The trick is to change the bad, keep the good, and not let the rest cloud your decisions.
Negative childhood experiences can have a big effect on you as an adult. But I learned that, as long as you allow those experiences to continually affect your life, you are giving power to the people who caused those bad things to happen.
Unlike the old adage, "a leopard can't change his spots", you can change. As an adult, you can change your outlook, you can change your feelings about experiences, you can change your way of thinking, you can change your personality, you can take responsibility for your life now.
I look at all the bad experiences as learning tools. While I did allow them to cloud my adult life for years, I finally learned the things written above.
2007-01-22 04:18:12 · answer #1 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. I think there is a large part of our behaviour and the way we interpret the world that is dictated by our experiences as a child. However, as you identify, as human beings we are also partially free to change the way things are, and act upon them!
2007-01-22 12:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by Ale 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes childhood experiences can follow you all through your life... especially if they were bad. Things that kids said, or teacher's did, or mom and dad said when they were angry. It took me a lot of hours of therapy to get over some of it and to finally be able to quit smoking. I was holding on to my cigarettes because everyone wanted me to quit and I refused to obey them. Now I'm so glad I quit. Life sure is easier and I've saved a lot of money... not to mentioned improved my health.
2007-01-22 12:16:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I agree.
Childhood is the blueprint of life.
Everything that you've become in life durived from childhood.
What was taught and instilled then, is exercised from then on.
2007-01-22 12:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by Leo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes...
women and men are big childs...no matter how old are they.
2007-01-22 12:31:54 · answer #5 · answered by PLUTO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea!
2007-01-22 20:03:34 · answer #6 · answered by Lah-Dee-Dah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋