We have all heard the statement that “children are resilient” and that they can quickly and easily adjust to anything and everything.
Hence, the story is told of how children never really know or understand what is going on around them, and that what happens to children is quickly forgotten when they grow into adults.
However, research shows that what we are as adults has a lot to do with our childhood. Philosophies and perspectives with which our adult lives are founded on, no matter how wholesome or dysfunctional, may have everything to do with our childhood experiences — what we received or lacked, saw, and even heard as children.
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