Keep Your Hands To Themselves

It's best to start training yourself early on to keep your hands to themselves, by which I quite literally mean, no scratching, no biting, no itching. Scars are permanent, sensitive, itchy, and not very attractive.

My list of more prominent scars:

-Ring Finger Left Hand: deep diagonal scar where I almost cut my finger off with a butcher's knife.
-Middle Finger Left Hand: thin diagonal scar where I almost cut my finger off with a jeweler's saw.
-Hairline: 3 diagonal pits from a collision with the corner of a science lab table
-Nose: Vertical scar straight down the middle from falling on a paved hill at recess in first grade
-Spine: Several scarred vertebrae from an incident with a construction table.
-Left Lumbar: Diagonal scar from an incident with a screw in same construction table
-Left Eyebrow: 1" scar when I fainted into a marble floor a month before my wedding

I have countless other scars from scratches, burns, and random clumsiness, as well as stretch marks from a rapid growth spurt when i was 10. In general, my older scars healed better than my newer scars since skin cell turnover is so high in your youth. When you get cut, the blood coagulates in the wound and the cells rebuild. When your scratch out the scab, you disrupt the healing process and the edges of the wound, keeping it from fully healing. Band-aids are good. They keep you away from the wound.

Lesson: KEEP YOUR HANDS TO THEMSELVES.