The Environment's Influence On Children

The idea about whether the environment, education, or expectations has had an influence on a child has always been debated, but from my experiences, I believe that our environment has the greatest influence on us. This book touches upon the topic a number of times due to the fact that it tells the story of two boys who ended up with different outcomes in life despite having lived in the same neighborhood. Although the two boys had shared the same neighborhood, they didn’t grow up in the same environment. Their environments, such as home and school, were different, which would greatly change how both of them ended up. Both boys did not have their fathers but for different reasons. The author, who was one of the two boys, had lost his father. …show more content…
Their way of steering me away from danger might have seem strange to some because many expect a parent to tell the kids not to do certain things no matter what but my parents believed that saying no would make me want to do the thing more. So by letting me have the freedom to make my choices I became more cautious of the dangers because I know that I alone would be to blame for my actions. My friends on the other hand did not have this kind of guidance. One of my friends had parents who didn’t really are a whole lot about what he which was in a way similar to the way my parents were, but the difference was that my parents did care despite not trying to stop me and showed that they did by telling me the dangers of my action. My friend’s parents did not do this and as a result he ended up doing drugs and making poor decisions because he did not have the right kind of environment at home. A more in-depth look at his home environment would be that his father was always at work and because of this he only had his mother to really teach him anything, but his mother didn’t really interact …show more content…
If a child lives in a bad neighborhood, chances are that the education won’t be that great and parents will probably not have high expectations of their child who is growing up in such a rough area. I was able to draw many parallels between the book and my life because I knew what it was like to grow up in a neighborhood that had many issues like the one the author and the other Wes Moore grew up