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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Codes of Training The Most Delicate Period of Life The most delicate and crucial period of life is the childhood. The foundation for the future personality of the individual is established at this time. The slightest neglect might cause irreparable harm to the childs future personality and temperament.

In fact, the first three years of the childs life play a very crucial role in the metamorphosis of its personality and character.a Perhaps all, and definitely most, people dont realize this very important aspect of upbringing of a child. They generally say, Small children, and babies in particular, have no capacity to comprehend anything. They cannot speak and therefore are incapable of expressing their thoughts and feelings.

They are so helpless that they even have no control over their bowels and hence have no capability to learn anything on their own. With such an attitude the parents squander the period of early childhood of the baby. This is the most impressionable and delicate period of the childs life. During this apparently uncomplicated period the moral, cultural and religious instincts of the child take shape.

In this early three years period the child picks up several hundred words and gets acquainted with their meanings. It will start distinguishing between good and bad, friendship and enmity, pretty and ugly, small and big; it will also get the faculty of identifying different colors, the taste of foods. It develops the faculty of observation and speech. It starts showing rudiments of the thought process. It learns to crawl and walk. It will learn to laugh and to cry.

During this three years period there will be thousands of events that might affect the psyche of the child and have a bearing on its future temperament. Despite all this, there will hardly be any person who can recall events of the first three years of his life. All the events of the time will be under a cloud of oblivion and forgetfulness. But, all the same, those forgotten memories would already have had tremendous effects on the nature and personality of the individual.

Several psychological ailments, fears, traumas, anger etc are the products of the events of the first few years of the person's life. One psychologist writes: If the child doesnt develop a strong personality in the early years of his life, then he will not have the capability to bear the onerous responsibilities which will confront him in the future.