Raveeha Rabbani - Week 13 - Childhood Memories

While working on my POAS research paper, one of the main things I realized is that the influence our families, childhood, and early-life relationships have on us is immense. Events that happen in one's childhood quite literally shape what kind of person they will become when they are older. This is why people with extreme childhood trauma tend to grow up to reciprocate that trauma and pass it onto the next generation. However, positive childhood memories do contribute to the development of positive attitudes and behaviors in young adults.


Personally, some of my most fond memories have been created during the month of Ramadan—which has just begun yesterday for 2024. Ramadan has always been a wholesome affair in my family—meaning that it is always celebrated and honored with full dedication and passion. My parents have always made sure that I am aware of the reasons and intent behind the fasts we keep during the month of Ramadan. I have always appreciated and loved the fact that the whole purpose of fasting during Ramadan is to be able to put yourself in the shoes of the less fortunate, and also help them by donating and giving charity to those who need it. The values of unity, cooperation, kindness, and empathy that my parents taught me in my childhood when discussing Ramadan, will always stick with me.


Memories and moments like these are sometimes the most influential in an individual’s life as they help shape one’s own mindset on the world around them. I am thankful to my parents for making sure to always teach me positive values, and encouraging me to think of others before prioritizing myself. The memories we have made together as a family during previous Ramadans, are core memories for me—ones that I will surely reflect on even when I am much, much older.

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  1. Kushi SharmaMarch 27, 2024 at 11:07 AM

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  2. Kushi SharmaMarch 27, 2024 at 11:11 AM

    Hi Raveeha! I agree, family, childhood, and early-life relationships do have a great influence on children, and there is a complex relationship between the levels at which social factors play a role. The development of children is summarized as biological, emotional, and psychological changes that occur between birth and adolescence, and the social and economic situations in which children are raised are referred to as social determinants of health. The time in which children grow to two years of age is very important for the development of brain circuits that influence linguistic, cognitive, and socio-emotional abilities; essentially, the early years are the most crucial for development and life course. And this early development is most significantly affected by biological and environmental factors, including family and social setting, as you mentioned. Other determinants of early childhood development include physical development, growth and motor development, family environments, emotional development, and poverty and cognitive or language development.

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  3. EmilyMarch 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM

    Hello Raveeha! I find it so interesting how our experiences shape us people no matter if we like it or not. From before you can even remember your personality has been altered by the people around you. I remember from somewhere I hear that people are just fragments of everyone they have met and full heartly believe that. Even when you pass by someone on the street that you just find cool you might find yourself choosing outfits similar to what they were wearing or using a phrase they used or vice versa with a bad view of someone and wanting to be not like them. I love and hate this relationship we have with the world around us, I love being fragments of my friends and saying words and phrases my friends have taught me now to say but also hate how I accident pick up habits that I don't like just because someone around me does that.

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