Children's early experiences will make them grow into adults with a unique world view, and scientists begin to sort out some complex interactions. We began to understand the principles governing these causal series. However, scientific knowledge can never let us predict how parents' words and deeds will affect their children's lives in 20 years. Of course, all parents want to know the answer to this question. Singers often compare life with the weather (such as blue sky and showers in April). This analogy may just capture the core characteristics of childhood experience affecting later life, which is completely contrary to the answer we got from almost obsessive consultation on parenting guidance.
Children's early experiences will enable them to grow into adults with a unique world view. We are not sure whether a storm disaster like Hurricane Katrina is caused by carbon dioxide emissions. We can't predict whether there will be a similar hurricane in New Orleans this year. However, by analyzing the complex statistical relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and meteorological models, we can find that carbon dioxide emissions do affect the weather. Similarly, this analysis can also tell us that childhood experiences will really affect later life. We can also predict that legislation to protect well-equipped kindergartens will reduce the crime rate in the future; As we can predict, legislation to control carbon dioxide emissions can reduce the frequency of hurricanes.
But for every day and place, the weather is always descriptive and autobiographical. Great diarists such as Virginia Woolf and Sir Walter Scott, even those who keep diaries every day, will start by recording the weather characteristics (sunny or cloudy, rainy or windy). The real individual life of children is more like this unique and irreplaceable narrative, not the solution of an equation, nor the happiness and success that can be achieved by a formula.