Nature Or Nurture Child Development

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In a world with an education system as the basis of child development, people have started to notice that children follow a tendency to rather be good in arts or maths, but not both. The next question these observers had when they discovered this occurrence was “What causes the child to fall under one of the categories?” When these people took their analysis to the next level, they formed two main ideas of what effected the talents of these children. The two main ideas have evolved into the phrase “nature or nurture,” or the idea that children are born the way they are, compared to the idea that the environment that these children were in during development would affect how they would respond in future stresses. While it is possible that children's …show more content…

With so many discoveries and activities they partake in, it would be nearly impossible to predict what they would be interested in. Strangely enough, even with all this possibility, there are still trends of what groups of children would be interested in, and it all links back to family. The average family is a group of people who spend most of their time with or for the other members within the family. Most commonly they are the people who raise and teach you how to the most basic functions of life. They lead you through the infinite possibilities and show you the most common or their favorite way of accomplishing anything. An example of this, is the family of musicians. The entire family has created an importance around the mastery of some form of musical creation, so when a new child is introduced to the family, it is surrounded by positive influences of music. This new child has been raised in a narrow selection from the pool of limitless possibilities, and has now formed a talent in the realm of music. That example is shown in most families in all forms of interests, but all have a common theme. What you are exposed to will shape what and where you look for interests. Therefore talents and interests are not created from nature, but they rather come from

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