HOW CHILDHOOD SHAPES YOUR FUTURE

 

“Children are like flowers. Let them bloom by giving them your warm smiles, your soft gentle words falling on them like rain and your art of confidence. You will be amazed at your own garden.”  Abaida Mahmood.

Children usually don’t remember their first two or three years of life — but their earliest experiences may stick with them for years and continue to influence them well into their adulthood.

Babies and toddlers raised in supportive and caring home environments tends to do better on standardized tests later on, and they were more likely to attain higher degrees as adults, they tends to stay satisfied in their life’s emotionally and mentally.

Two studies look at how parents' behaviour in those first years affects life decades.

The first study found that the type of emotional support that a child receives during the first three and a half years has an effect on education, social life and romantic relationships even 20 or 30 years later.

Parental behaviour in the early years is just one of many influences, and it's not necessarily causing the benefits seen in the study. While tallying up the results, the researchers found out that children may have confidence and higher level of self-esteem.

About 10 percent of children academic achievement was correlated with the quality of their home life at age three.

The second study, also published in Child Development, found that children's early experiences help predict whether or not they end up developing social anxiety disorder as teenagers — but only for those who were especially sensitive and distrustful as babies.

Those extra-sensitive babies were more likely to report feeling anxious socializing and attending meetings and social events as teenagers.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents _ Christopher Paolini.

Parents must spend twice as much as time with their Adolescence, if they want their children to grow well.