Why Is Childhood More Important Than Learning New Things

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Childhood is far more important than just growing up and learning new things. Every event or experience we have as children shape us into who we will become and how we will behave. Everyone has different experiences and that makes it their own. With each experience that happens to me or you, big or small, affects us in different ways and we each handle or cope with it the way we think is best. The way I would cope with something another could cope with it a totally different way. Each experience I have had has made me who I am today and I am grateful for that, but there is one experience in particular that as affected me even until now that I 'm an adult. From the time I actually remember growing up life was fantastic. If someone were to …show more content…
I was excited to get home and show my dad what we had done in school that day. So, I started to run home because I just couldn 't control myself and since then I don 't think I 've ever ran so fast with such a big smile of my face to get home and see my dad ever again since that day. Once I finally made it home I ran through the door and when I got inside I was like a deer in the headlights. I stopped dead in my tracks. The only thing I could think was that isn 't mom with dad, but he 's kissing her like he kissed my mother. At that very moment my father say me and his eyes got just as wide as mine did. I still hadn 't moved yet and surprisingly neither did he or the other woman. I turned around and ran outside the house faster than I ran into the house just a couple minutes prior. Thankfully, my grandmother lived at the end of the block. As I was running I was thinking I was going to get in so much trouble because I saw that and also because I got home a lot sooner than he had expected. If I didn 't run home so fast I wouldn 't have saw what I did so maybe it was my

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