Giving Back (Part 1)
How would our lives change if we all just said yes?
“there’s no greatest bang for your buck than paeds”
It’s crazy how our childhood habits follows you into adulthood. As someone who works in paediatrics, I couldn’t agree more when I heard someone say “there’s no greatest bang for your buck than paeds”.
Why did I love this statement so much? Because it's true. If you have a medical condition and you’re able to manage it in your childhood, your health outcomes are much better as you enter adulthood. The childhood years are so malleable that even if you are a healthy individual (and don’t have any medical conditions), you can still develop those good habits early on, and therefore you’re more likely to carry them forward into your later years, and really impacting and having a positive effect on your life.
Diagnoses and treatments aside, anyone can develop those good habits. It can be tremendously small things too:
- Packing your bag and picking your outfit the night prior for your next day
- Organizing your calendar (e.g. writing tasks and due dates in your agenda/calendar)
- Exercising
- Volunteering
- Chores
- Learning how to cook
These things aren’t hard, but they actually make a HUGE difference on your life, even as an adult. Friends that couldn’t cook in their younger years I often find don’t really know how to cook at their later years either - because they just don’t have that drive. Same with household chores. They just manage to get by.
It’s insane to think how when you're a kid you just follow and listen to whatever your parents do, and by doing so, you start to develop those habits. So much of how we are today is really a continuation from what you did as a kid.
But the question here is - are kids really malleable, or is it just adults are reluctant and lazy? Is it because adults say ‘no’, and kid’s don’t really? How would our lives change if we all just said yes?
