Childhood Habits in Adulthood
Saruulbuyan Ganbat
SEMINR 126G
Teddy Chocos
2012/ April/ 3

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People start forming habits from a very young age that could bring various results.
Children could have any kind of habit and that can be caused by culture, friends, school, entertainment, and society and mostly by parents. Childhood experiences make us mature in life and so do habits too. Human habit generally form from the way we think, work, and behave, therefore, habit is from our daily life and so it becomes more difficult to break when people grow older.
All people have their own routine of life in everyday lives and there are few common habits for most people. Those habits are typically about taking care of our own basic needs such as showering every morning or listening to a song before going to bed.
Some habit stays for lifetime but the rest can be the common habits and they are not dangerous at all. People mentally develop when they grow up and experience complicated subjects and obstacles. As in mental change, their interest, behavior and view towards subject changes, starts to act, move more like an adult and all in all altogether leads us to leave our childhood habits.
However, the common routine habits are not very serious some, habits that are formulated from childhood are difficult to break and can lead to serious problems such as smoking. What kind of habit the person has is very important, because it has a huge impact on rest of his/her life. Bad lifetime habit could suck every little piece of successes from people’s whole work. People give up their good habits much easier than giving up serious ones because human are the smartest but also the weakest animals. As a result, some of them end up keeping negative effective habits for lifetime and hiding success from themselves and in result huge problems will appear when they grow up.

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Undoubtedly, the most common lifetime bad habits of people are greed and laziness. Humans start to get greedy ever since they got their first sense and that is why even two years old child wants more candy. On the other hand, people make decisions and create laziness by themselves and make the worst decision to stay relaxed but not to work. Greed and laziness could become the most serious harmful effective habit when child becomes an adult. They could make best friends to worst enemies, breakup family members and end anyone up with nothing except an empty pocket. Public disadvantage is that people mostly want things they do not have and they always try to make it their own property, which is a form of greed. Depending on the person’s characteristic, childhood and teenager experiences, that person’s greed level can be different. Greed also could show horrible effect if child grew up in wealthy a family and have no experience of taking care of his/her own self in life because when children grow up in a good condition where others do everything for him/her, then the child will experience nothing but greed.
Most of the time, people get their bad habits depending on their parents, school, friends and surroundings. Unfortunately the most effective way to avoid from unnecessary habits is people’s intelligence.
Temporary childhood habits almost have no effects on adulthood but unfortunately if the children get new habit during teenage years, the habit mostly ends up with them. In simple words, these new habits usually become lifetime habit because on teenage years child gets smarter at reacting on any situation than before and being teenager is the first step into adulthood.
Mostly teenagers attract into negative things more than positives because they do not realize their terrible habits until they see the outcomes, even though others who are

3 around have realized. How sad it is that some teenagers even do not care about vanishing their own bad habits from early ages or that there are couple numbers of mentally blind people who are even afraid to admit in society about their lifetime poisonous habits. For those reasons it leads young people to increase doing more of negatives in daily life.
Clearly, it will be harsh for those teenagers when it is the right time to step into a real life as adults, they will face within society problems such as start getting embarrassed from society, getting bullied by others, getting depression caused by own negative habits.
Accordingly bad habits also could bring teenagers to start doing regretful activities. For example, committing suicide, hiding themselves from society and to isolating themselves from the outer world.
Once those teenagers stepped into life and start becoming mentally adults, they would rarely realize their bad habits but it will follow them for lifetime. But some teenagers get mature early and others later. Depending on their lifestyles and environment teenagers has both chances whether to keep positive or negative habits.
People can avoid from these lifetime harmful habits. Smart person can realize their serious habits, so he/she can give it up before its outcome. Therefore intelligence can help the person to throw away their needless habits while becoming adult and it helps to prevent from further effects. Letting their kid dress and act like an adult has good side effects. People should care their kid’s intelligences and behaviors, and become a role model for them. In result of it, kids would have the ability to act immaturely from young ages and it would help children to find those hidden bad habits. As David Elkind reminded “When children dress like adults they are more likely behave as adults do, to imitate adult actions. It is hard to walk like an adult male wearing corduroy knickers that

4 make an awful noise. But boys in long pants can walk like men, and little girls in tight jeans can walk like women. It is more difficult today to recognize that children are children not miniature adults, because children dress and move like adults”. It is easy for boys to act like a man and small girls to act like a women but it is hard for adults to act like a child. Being or finding a role model for your children as early as possible will teach them lifetime lessons or at least it would protect your child from harmful habit effects in future.
Human development continues until death so any habit can be formed or broken at any time. Therefore, it is important to try having good habits. The point is when we all start realizing the bad outcome is when we are becoming mature and experienced.
According to Grace J. Craig teaches at University of Massachusetts, mentions
“Development-or at least the potential for development-continues throughout life”.
Which represents that human potential development are endless until we die, it goes on for lifetime and because it is the result of our experiences, intelligences and habits.
Depending on our potential growth, experiences and habits, child could become mature at anytime, could be on early ages and as well as late. The childhood to adult maturity development is mainly outcome of personal habits, experiences and social life. We all grow up to the same age but not with the same thoughts. Depending on children’s personality, habits, culture, family, and society, the children could become any kind of adult with any kind of habits.
To become mature successful adult, teenager need good habits other than intelligence and hard work. Habits that some of us should have learned from a young age.
Lifetime good habit can follow and be the big part of his/her life successes and be the

5 best partner for lifetime. Also it helps the person to find his/her bad habits and to get rid of it before its consequences. Organizing around is definitely one of those good habits.
For example, lets pretend there was a boy who loves to play with soldiers. Every time when he finish playing with the soldiers and having little fun his mom used to ask him to place toys neatly on its foot on a wooden table. It takes 15 minutes each day. Who would this boy become in ten years? Now we can see the result, can see how his mom taught him a lifetime good habit. His study materials, room, writing and even his notes will be now well organized and it is because of that a single wooden table. Being well organized is so important as an adult. Human make countless mistakes in life because no one knows what is coming tomorrow and being well organized, prepared and planned clearly prevents us from fails.
In conclusion, human habits play a big role in our lives. Who children are becoming in the future depends on their intelligence, family, society and culture. But just as important is our good habit supports us until we achieve success in many ways in life.
On the other hand, kids and teenagers bad habits could bring the worst results in life when they become adults. Especially greed and laziness are the most future effective habits and could end anyone up with nothing. Intelligence also does play an important role in results of childhood activities and it could be the unique assistance for kids and teenagers to avoid from further negative effects.

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