#childhood #childdevelopment While your childhood is part of you, it doesn’t have to dictate who you become. To say that the child is the father to the man is old news — we all realize the influence of our childhoods on the adult we become. Like the foundation of a house, our childhood experiences are the foundation on which the rest of our lives are built. And if the foundation is not solid — has emotional cracks and wounds — these affect the structure of our adult lives. Each of has a story that we walk out of our childhoods with — about the way our parents always argued, that our brother was abusive, our sister a support, our grandmother the rock that kept us stable, that school was hell. We fill in the story with memories — of that awful argument when our father punched a hole in the wall, that time our bullying brother held us down on the playground until the teacher made him get off, the kind attention of our sister when we lost a toy, the way our grandmother listened wh