Childhood Days

Among the human's developmental stages, Childhood is the most crucial. It is the foundation of how we draw decisions when we become adults. Since this stage starts from 5 years old to 12 years old, it's a long period of collaborating your experiences with friends, society and most of all your family. How these people treat you and took care of you greatly affects the development of your personality.

Like for instance my online student last night who is 50 years old and divorced. Our conversation went into something personal. She asked me if I have kids and I asked her back. I was quite shocked when she said she's always been afraid to have kids because she had a very unhappy childhood. She was abuse by her mother. Having no child was also the main reason why her ex husband divorce her. 

When she asked me how was my childhood, I began to recall. I stopped at the memory when I was 10 years old. My parents had to go away to work and they entrusted the care of me to our neighbor. I only get to see them once a month. I was lucky I was never bullied nor mistreated. In fact, their eldest daughter is my closest friend and I call them Mama and Papa too. We were literally poor. They couldn't give me an allowance and couldn't even buy me a recognition dress. But I was cool with it. It wasn't that way forever though. When I was in second year high school, I've seen my parents fruit of hard labor. They built a new house and got a passenger jeep.

Different folks with different strokes goes with different experiences. May it be bad or good, the most significant thing is we move forward since we are to follow the sun of tomorrow. Going backward is going nowhere.