Childhood Years: The Most Important Years Of A Person's Life

Nature versus Nurture is a common topic when discussing one’s personal development while growing up. Children are often affected by how their families treat them and teach them their values and judgements. This sometimes changes the children’s personalities and manners. Because of that the way they’re brought up can also often impact the choices they make in their future lives. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates how children are influenced by their families using the Finch and the Ewell families. Personally, my family has also greatly impacted my life and personality growing up.

Family is like a roller coaster and is always changing and adapting as is needed. One day, a family may be permissive and allow their children to do as they please. However, the next day, the parents may feel it is necessary to use a dictatorial style where everything they say is essentially the law of the house. The last parenting style, authoritative, is when the rules are consistent and the parents are flexible. Depending on which of these styles a parent uses, the child will grow up in a different atmosphere that can influence their personality. This is the idea of nurture, whereas the idea of nature would be that the genetics of the parents, not their parenting style, is what decides the children’s characteristics. Arguably, authoritative parenting is the most effective and reliable, whereas permissive parenting can lead to a lack of stability within a family.

One of the main, and most controversial topics discussed in a child’s development is, nature vs. nurture. Nature pertains to genetic influences that a child has inherited from their parents, such as traits, abilities, and capacities. For instance, what color eyes the child may have, how athletic they may be, and even their brain development. Whereas nurture, refers to the environment the child is raised in and how this shapes their behaviors. Such factors can include, the family’s socio-economic status, schooling, parental discipline, as well as whether the child is provided with enough resources. When it comes to nature or nurture having a stronger influence then the other, the answer is both, nature and nurture, influence the outcome of the child. This idea that both nature and nurture, play a part in how the child will develop, is known as the nature-nurture continuum.

Family nurture also very important for people to be in a right way and to do right things, there are many about this. There are many families with high education, with high cultural values, but their children do not become like their parents or like they want them to be. The reasons might be different. The first reason is that people do not spend time with their children, or they do not have time for this. Moreover it depends on people’s character form birth.

From my perspective, the way a person behaves can be influenced by the combination of both elements, Nature and Nurture. Although people inherit genetic traits from their parents, his or her behaviors can also be affected through his or her parents’ upbringings and through the environment in which he or she grows up in. In addition, a person’s personality from childhood may not necessarily last into adulthood, which could also have an important effect on a person’s behavior. Ultimately, inheriting traits from our family member can be one of the reasons why we behave and act like them, but because everyone is different and unique, it makes the research more difficult.

Nurture has many dimensions including; physical envrionemnts and social environments. Physical environments could be good prenatal care and nutrition. Social environments plays a crucial part of young adulthood. Neighborhoods, media, peer pressure, families, and friends are all apart of shaping the social aspect of humans. Nurture influences development in young kids and that is when it is most important. If a child is brought up in a broken household or is not talked to nor is exposed to social activites it can affect them intellectualy. Their speech can be delayed, they get social anxiety, or they do not enjoy social activites. Nature plays a crucial role because nature is their genetic make up or what is encoded in their genes. Nature is what they inheretited from both parents. Nurture is how those encoded genes effect their life. Negative environmental factors effect a childs life negatively. But positive environmental factors can increase their life span and

Humans are programmed to carry out physical,mental and emotional developments, but what has the most influence on a human upbringing and what shapes humans behaviour? Is is nurture which is the environment that we are raised/socialization and our culture. Nurture the positive encouragement, from a parent or caregiver towards the physical, mental and behavioural development of a individual. Or is nature your biological factor/genes that a human obtain from their mother and father. As we go through life we go through different developmental stages from infancy, adolescence/teenager through to adulthood. Humans depend on the nurturing from our caregivers, and social groups to help us achieve our developmental stages successfully, and contributes to a human behaviour. This why i feel that nurturing has the most influence on a humans upbringing. Humans depend on the nurturing from parents/caregivers to teach them independence, confidence, to have good self-esteem and positive behaviour. Humans learn through experience by what we see, hear and are taught though our culture and our environment. Not every human in the world are raised the same, this makes everyone develop and behave in different ways.. Not one human is the same. Nurturing help influence humans and the way they behave and act towards other. This contributes to how human behaviour is shaped.

An individual’s personality traits are the characteristics and qualities that distinguish one as distinctive. From the time we are in the womb, we have already begun to develop a sense of individuality and achieving what we want to be seen as. An infant who kicks their mother’s stomach since a young age might develop a personality that wants attention, while one who does not may be seen as relaxed and calm. However, our personality in nature is not always intact throughout our life. As we grow, we are challenged by our society’s limits and often influenced by our surroundings. Therefore, the way an individual is nurtured will differ from their initially inherent character, and they will start to

Some say that childhood is the most influential stage of life, the stage that shapes the future for that child into how they will develop into adulthood. With this in mind, we are always watching what our children are learning, and providing them with the building blocks that will help them grow up into a good person someday, we watch and guide them, being careful they are not exposed to some things too early and others not too late. Take fairy tales for example. Kids today know all the fairy tales, or at least most of them. But they only know what we let them see, which, in most cases is the revised Disney version of fairy tales that always have a happy ending and are therefore deemed appropriate for young children. However now some are

In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Socrates was a firm believer that nature was the dominant and sole driving force of man. Fellow philosopher Aristotle, however, believed that goodness could be taught to others through the correct and appropriate usage of nurture. While the age-old argument has yet to be decided upon, modern day sociology dictates that child development relies heavily on the environment and relationships surrounding them; if the two are negative, they will have detrimental effects on the child. If the way children are nurtured (or lack thereof) has such an impact on their development early in life, and subsequently affects who they become as adults, then it is safe to assume that nurture plays a larger part in human development than nature does. Although Socrates believes

Childhood is a very significant time in a person’s life where they are rapidly developing physically, cognitively, emotionally, academically, and socially. This period is usually marked from the age three to age twelve. At this age, it is important for the child to express their independence, make lasting friendships, and start taking on some responsibility. Along with more independence, children are developing and experiencing more physical changes, known as puberty. In order to learn from someone experiencing childhood today, I was able to interview my friend’s little brother, C.J.O.

Several psychologists have debated the issue of nature versus nurture for many decades. Only to arrive at one reasonable conclusion: Both genes and the environment are important in shaping a person’s behavior. However, individuals are not spared from these and are susceptible to environmental influences. Depending on how their family is structured to how their culture is structured. Nearly every phase of an individual's life teaches a lesson on how to adapt to the world. Parents purposely choose to teach certain ethical views or ideas to their families. These ideas are a crucial part of their heritage or history. Environment can affect morals, etiquette, and quality of life.

Diet and nutrition is one of the most important factors of a healthy adult life. Following a good diet and nutrition plan when young can reduce chances of developing different diseases and health conditions. Having a healthy diet also helps to decrease the chance of obesity. Another benefit is it helps the immune system.

There is a consensus that childhood is the best time in one’s life, where a person not only learns new things faster and grows but also realizes innocently what he likes and what makes him happy. I used to love visiting my Aunt’s place during my vacations in school days and during one such stay she took me to her office - the ‘All India Radio’ station. The huge antennas, the towers and the equipment left me intrigued but the most curious catch was the way my aunt could talk to or tune songs to millions of listeners around the country, simply by sitting in one closed room. I was in the 7th grade then and didn’t understand intricacies of the complete system but the basic idea behind it inspired me since then to reach out into that technology. This incident was like a spark to the fire that I have in me now and I want to fuel it even further by pursuing the ………

A monk, by the name of Baba Hari Das, once stated that, “Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them.” Our own personal experience tells us that this is true. People who grow up in proximity and relationship with their parents, develops traits which develop from their experience of the parents. We can cultivate a wide variety of traits and capacities which can include personality, social skills, ability to deal with stress, and even psychosocial attributes from our parents.