Most people enter parenthood understanding that a lot of work goes into raising a baby. However, young parents put an enormous amount of extra pressure on themselves when they decided to start a family. When parents raise their children they often replicate or oppose the way their parents raised them. What if I told you, that when applied as solely one or the other, both nature and nurture play a very small role in building a responsible, ambitious child. In fact, a child’s behavior is a combination of more than just nature and nurture, but genetics and environmental stresses, the formula is Genetics x Environmental Influences. Both Bryan Caplan and Victoria Satir voiced their own opinions on the topic in their articles titled, “Good News and
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She calls a family a factory where people are made, and the parents are the people-makers. In addition, she also says that an individuals’ behavior depends on their relation to her four aspects of family life. The four aspects of family life are self worth; the ideas an individuals has of oneself, communication; A way to talk out or talk through problems, rules: the way a person should feel and act, and their link to society: the way in which an individual relates to different organizations and institutions in society. Additionally, when one or more of these aspects are negatively affected, the individual and the family …show more content…
A vivid example of this in my life is when my mom had a mental and physical reaction to her medications, she became very lethargic in her daily routine and had very irrational moods. For a span of four to five months, I managed to get up, feed myself and my mother, go to school, go to football practice, get home around six, make dinner, do chores around the house, finish homework around two or three in the morning, and get up around six in the morning for school the next day. I believe that as the research study says,“Stressful childhood events could modify children’s brain development” and behavior (Perroud, N., et. al. pg. 314-322). This traumatic experience during my childhood caused a behavior modification and is one of the main reasons that I act more mature than most of the people my age. Because I had this experience where I had no choice, but to act more like an adult, I grew up and matured faster than my
She calls a family a factory where people are made, and the parents are the people-makers. In addition, she also says that an individuals’ behavior depends on their relation to her four aspects of family life. The four aspects of family life are self worth; the ideas an individuals has of oneself, communication; A way to talk out or talk through problems, rules: the way a person should feel and act, and their link to society: the way in which an individual relates to different organizations and institutions in society. Additionally, when one or more of these aspects are negatively affected, the individual and the family …show more content…
A vivid example of this in my life is when my mom had a mental and physical reaction to her medications, she became very lethargic in her daily routine and had very irrational moods. For a span of four to five months, I managed to get up, feed myself and my mother, go to school, go to football practice, get home around six, make dinner, do chores around the house, finish homework around two or three in the morning, and get up around six in the morning for school the next day. I believe that as the research study says,“Stressful childhood events could modify children’s brain development” and behavior (Perroud, N., et. al. pg. 314-322). This traumatic experience during my childhood caused a behavior modification and is one of the main reasons that I act more mature than most of the people my age. Because I had this experience where I had no choice, but to act more like an adult, I grew up and matured faster than my