Family : Conditioning And Nurture In The Movie Parenthood

Parenthood (1989) is a movie that deals with family life and the stages of human development. Gil Buckman is the father of three children Kevin, Taylor and Justin Buckman. Also, the husband of Karen Buckman. He works at a firm where he thinks he is on the track for a partnership. He coaches Kevin team in baseball and wants to be a better father than his dad. Also, he cares a lot about what other people think. In this movie Gil goes through a couple of stages dealing with his career, family, household and marriage.

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.

The movie Parenthood cover’s many of the topics we have discussed this semester in class. But it obviously focused very strongly on parenting and marriage. During the course of the movie we see the four Buckman children’s very different style of parenting. Although all four were raised by the same parents the culture of their individual families are all look very different. Gil Buckman felt abandoned and ignored by his father and therefore responded, with his wife Karen, by being a very active and attentive parent. Gil and Karen are on the authoritative end of the parenting spectrum, and their families’ culture revolves around activities such as baseball games, Kevin’s baseball game, Birthday parties, school plays and basically having fun together (Lecture, 4/22). On the opposite end of the parenting spectrum are Nathan and Susan. They are very authoritarian and reminded me of the “tiger Mom’s” of China. The culture of their family means that they don’t have their daughter in preschool, they are waiting a prescribed amount of time to have a second child and Nathan is continuously drilling facts into their daughter. Susan feels like she should be playing with children her own age but Nathan’s feelings have taken over their family’s culture.

Nature Vs Nurture is often the huge debate in psychology when it comes to determining and understanding individual’s characteristics traits. Nature is hereditary to our behavior while nurture is based on our environmental influences. Although most argue whether or not nature or nurture defines our characteristics, I believe both have an impact on we are.

The front door squeaks close. One’s child arrived home at 1:00 AM, but was instructed to be home at 10:00 PM. That child came home with his parents waiting on the stairs with hands on their waists. His parents yelled at the boy for twenty minutes and had all electronic devices taken away from him, but the parents needed to first understand what their children did, and how he could have solved the problem. Families shouldn't feel upset and ignore their children because they broke a rule; they should sit down with their child and listen to what they have to say. It’s important for a child to recognize what they did and give them options on how they want to resolve them. Throughout this unit, many parenting styles were presented, including Baumrind's

The Parenthood film depicts average family that are changing life course which is the building block of many families. We have the father and mother with marital disfigurations of attachments, and lack of attachment between themselves and the relationships involving their four adult children and grandchildren. Furthermore, in this paper a description of accepting the shift generational roles and Structural Theory is analyzed and discussed in an article moreover, the Buckman’s family members accept financial responsibility for self and their families. Lastly, the subsystem chosen for the analysis, speculation is Larry.

The movie Parenthood is a great movie to watch. It delivers a good message about parenting, life struggles, and love. Just as grandma stated that life was like a roller coaster, up and down, up and down. Each sibling of the Buckman family has struggles in his or her own family. Helen Buckman, as a single mom stands out the most to me.

From the earliest stages of life, a human being is always taught the binary oppositions of right and wrong, and how to distinguish them. The guidance of parents, or any dominant figure, is crucial in this period, as nurture is sometimes believed to be the reason behind the life choices a human being will make in the future. The debate nature versus nurture has been going on since the Elizabethan era, yet scholars from both the fields of philosophy and medicine have not reached a solid agreement on this issue. The only thing most scholars could agree on is that the behavior of a human being is determined by many factors, varying from genetics to their upbringing, and the factors company each other rather than being polar opposites.

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.

The role of a parent is irreplaceable, and their presences plays a unique role in the lives of their children. According to ParentalRights.org, the relationship between a parent and a child is essential, because it “positively impacts a child's physical, mental, and emotional well-being”. The novel Brave New World, takes place in an infertile and controlled futuristic society, known as “the world state.” Children are parentless and are born through “bottle-birth”, which is a genetic engineered process where children are grown in bottles (blank). Although in the novel the children are brainwashed into believing that the concept of parents and the words “mother” and “father” are vulgar, it couldn’t be further from the truth.

Through history, the idea of nature vs. nurture has been a hotly debated issue. Nature, or genetics is often believed to be the most important aspect of a persons’ upbringing, as nature is something intrinsic to any one person. However, many debate that nurture, or the care and encouragement of any human life, trumps nature. The earliest evidence and rebuttals of these theories have been honed and developed over time by specific psychologists and educational theorists – all who hoped to prove their own ideas as fact at one time in history.

The movie Parenthood is about family and the struggles that follow. In every family there are complications to maintaining stability and happiness. There are times where you may think that you have lost control of your relationship and your own life. This film showcases reality and life without retakes. Not everything is going to go the way you planned, thus causing you to think your whole world is coming down on you. The main points the director emphasizes that caught my attention in this movie were adversity, denial and exhaustion.

When we are born there are specific hereditary traits, we acquire from our parents. As you grow and develop you form a personal identity. The Nature vs. Nurture debate is a discussion that focuses on the role of genetics and socialization to understand people’s behaviors and traits. The Nature side believes your behavioral traits already existed when you were born, due to your genetics. The Nurture side focuses on the environmental changes that affect your personality. The Agents of socialization impact how humans behave and have four components which include: family, school, peers, and the mass media. All of these provide structure to situations where socialization takes place. Nurture has significant importance due to our environment shaping who we are as people.

The first cause that is part of the “nurture” theory is also mental health. In order to discover if one has psychopathic tendencies, he/she does a positron emission tomography scan. After James Fallon, the neurologist, did the PET scan, he discovered he had the brain of a psychopath. However, due to the fact that he grew up in a nurturing and loving environment, he was able to become a successful adult in which simultaneously even prevented him from developing full traits of a psychopath(“Nature vs. Nurture”, 2015). Yet another cause also common in the “nature” theory is how the external environment affects one’s behavior. Infants are the perfect example of this. An infant only forms an attachment to someone in return for the love and attention she/he has received (McLeod, 2007). Another supporting idea is the fact that children tend to imitate people who play an influential and important role in their life -usually the parents. Thus, the son would learn from the father and begin to copy who he has made his role model and the same relationship occurs with the daughter and the mother (Lippa,2005). Thus, based on the findings above, the “nurture” theory contradicts with what those who support the “nature” theory believe

Nature is the idea that every child is born with their behaviours fixed and that they are inherited by their parents. DNA/Genes is another cause of behaviour and a child’s morals. Depending on the parents the child could have good moral development but could go the other way if their parents have a negative outlook on life. Nurture says the child is born as a blank slate and they learn the behaviours from peers, parents and siblings. None of the behaviours and morals are pre-determined, therefor if the child is brought up in a family where the parents are excessive drinkers and use foul language a lot, this could determine the child growing up thinking that this is the correct way to act, and could determine them to follow that path of life. Whereas on the other hand they could go polar opposite as they know by society how their parents are living isn’t a good way to live. This could cause their children’s moral development to differ depending on who they choice as a role model in