The roots of our identity and sense of self are found in our:

Answer: Childhood

Explanation: Everyone realizes their identity and begins to feel the self in their earliest childhood. The first information we have about ourselves is to feel our self, creating a sense of ourselves, which is a sense of personal identity. This begins to manifest itself in childhood when the attributes of the self occur, for example, the child feels that can walk, eat, run, laugh, etc. Later these attributes become more complex and create a certain behavior. What attributes a child will adopt as important to him, and what determines his/her behavior depends on what the child is witnessing during childhood, the parent, the environment, what the child is hearing from others, etc. All these attributes the child adopts by sense, become an integral part of the identity, i. e. they are upgraded into the existing sense of self and determine the behavior.