We often wonder why we are who we are, why we think the way we think and act the way we act. Are our behaviors more influenced by the genes we were passed down, or the environment we were raised in? When attempting to discover where your behavior traits came from, you simply need to reflect on the various factors that caused you to develop into who you are today. If only people were more aware of how important something as simple as a touch from a mothers warm hands on their child could have such an impactful effect on their child’s psychological behavior in the future. Out of all the development stages I’ve went through in life so far my memory only allows me to recollect one specific stage more vividly than any other, the psychosocial development in middle childhood. I tend to recall this stage in my life more vividly because this was around the time my parents divorced and I would say that event definitely sparked a drastic change in my behavior. A major contributing factor in the psychosocial development in middle childhood is the environment you were raised in. The environment you developed in can be anything from the people in your life, the home you lived in, your mother and father’s parenting styles, and your parent’s employment and socioeconomic statuses. All these factors play a major influence on your development and potential behavior in the future. I found this to be quite interesting when looking back at how my family was structured and reviewing the type of family atmosphere my parents gave me growing up. In chapter 10 of our textbook Experience Human Development it states that “The most important influences of the family environment on children’s development come from the atmosphere in the home.” (p. 326, 2012) G... ... middle of paper ... ...n the future. Sometimes I wonder how my behavior would be today if my parent’s spent more time with me instead of their jobs and if their relationship didn’t end the way it did. Maybe if my family shared more activities together such as mealtimes or spent more time together period I wouldn’t be so kept to myself. Maybe if my parents were more loving towards one another I wouldn’t be so anxious about meeting new people or paranoid about relationships. I still just find it intriguing how a simple missing factor in the structure or atmosphere of a family could create this domino effect that leads to a drastic change in a child’s behavior in the future. Something as simple as a child eating breakfast or dinner with their family everyday can prevent their behavior from heading in the wrong direction. If only more parents knew how much they could influence their children.
Beyond genetics, parents have an extremely significant impact on the emotional, moral, and social development of their children. This is understandable, as many children interact solely with their parents until they reach school-age. Parents have the ability to determine a child’s temperament, their social abilities, how well-behaved or in control of their emotions they are, how mature and ambitious the child will be, and so forth. (Sharpe) Furthermore, parents have both ideals for their children as well as ideals for themselves, and how they raise their children is deeply influenced by this.
"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” – Erma Bombeck. Early childhood is the most rapid period of development in a human life. Although individual children develop at their own pace, all children progress through an identifiable sequence of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth and change. A child who is ready for school has a combination of positive characteristics: he or she is socially and emotionally healthy, confident and friendly; has good peer relationships; tackles challenging tasks and persists with them; has good language skills and communicates well; and listens to instructions and is attentive (World Bank 1). The interactive influences of genes and experience literally shape the architecture of the developing brain and the most important ingredient is the nature of a child’s engagement in the relationship with his or her parents (Bales 1). The parenting style of a mother or father has a strong and direct impact on the sequence of development through which the child progresses on the way to becoming a physically, mentally and emotionally healthy individual.
children’s personality, character, and competence” (Baumrind, 1978). It is amazing that children who are raised in completely different environments can go on to possess similar characteristics later in life. But why is this the case? The functions that parents perform greatly influence how children develop. A tremendous amount of research has been done on the effects of parenting styles since 1966 when Diana Baumrind first published her three prototypes of parenting styles, but many parents fail to understand the power they possess in shaping the future lives of their children and the need for a responsible strategy regarding the rearing of their children.
People said, “Evil communication corrupt bad manners,” if you live with some bad people, you will become a bad people. Do you agree this? When you were born, you had to have a family beside you. In my view, family is the place where affect children’s personality development because their member family directly affect them. For example, “the children grow up with an abuse, absolutely they will abuse someone as same as they were abuse when child” (Jackson Katz, Tough Guise). According to the survey, almost the children will be a doctor, thief, or crime if their parent is a doctor, thief, or crime. One more time, this prove that family will affect your personality
Both Erik Erikson’s (1963) theory and Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby (1973) theory support the idea that early life experiences impact the person across their lifespan. Both theories believe that personality begins to develop from a young age and therefore occurrences in early life can have lasting impacts on the developmental of an individual. An individual’s social and psychological development is significantly influenced by early life and childhood experiences. The experiences an individual has as a child impacts on the development of social skills, social behaviours, morals and values of an individual.
The Developmental Perspective tells us that there is a typical way in which a person develops. It tells us that there are biological, sociological and psychological processes that are at play that influence the development of a person (Hutchison, 2015). It suggests that all people will develop in a similar way, or at least experiencing a similar path of developmental events if given the chance to interact with their environment in a health way (Hutchison, 2015). Conversely, social behavioral theory suggests that development is the dependent of what the person learns from imitating what is defined as the norm in their surrounding environment (Hutchison, 2015). Developmental Perspective suggests that there is a universal developmental experience for all people, while social behavioral theory suggests that what is “typical” is defined by what and who is immediately surrounding you (Hutchison, 2015). The author of this paper believes that Social behavioral theory lends itself to a more diverse application because it does not have clearly defines norms, but instead allows for a person’s immediate environment to define what is typical. Both theories understand that the way a person interacts with their environment will impact their
In one’s childhood it is apparent that the immediate family members have a significant impact on the way a child grows up. The environment a child is raised in can and will affect him or her in many ways. Developing siblings learn from one another through everyday play and family activities. The interactions within a family provide many opportunities to acquire social, emotional, and behavioral skills (Conger, Stocker, McGuire, 2009).
The behavior of a child grows in a patterned manner just as the body. Like the physical growth, behavior too is strongly influenced by the home and other surroundings in which the child grows up. While we all have a lifetime to develop varying aspects of ourselves, it is the childhood period that is the most important in acquiring many tools. The strongest and the longest environment to affect the child are the parents. Most parents consider it their responsibility as well as the privilege to provide the best possible environment favorable to child's physical growth. However, often they tend to forget about the behavioral aspect in a child's development. The more a parent knows about the changes that take place in a child's behavior when he grows up, the more successful they can be in guiding the child along the complicated path leading to maturity. The attitude of the parents towards a child is what can make all the difference.
In depth analysis has revealed the structure of people and who they grow up to be. Whether the parenting style is prosperous or poor, it has significant impacts on how one sees the world, how one sees themself and has influence on one's levels of achievement throughout a lifetime. Until the child can recognize their own ability and goals, parenting style is the largest determining factor in the child's success in social and academic circumstances. Children are the final product, or a reflection of culture and a family's values. No matter what events or people cause turmoil in a child's life, the true impact of the negative outside forces lays in the parents hands. If the child is raised correctly, negativity will not take a toll on them as opposed to a child raised in a 'broken home.'
“The most beautiful thing in this world is to see your parents smiling and knowing that you are the reason behind that smile.” Our parents’ first concern; which parenting style to follow in order to raise up a well-developed, and well-mannered person. Matter of fact, a huge debate went over this particular issue, whether strict parenting is the right method, or being leant is the correct method. "There is clear evidence that parents can and do influence children." (Maccoby 1). Although, there are numerous factors that can affect the parenting process, or affect the way the parents treat the child (Bossard 333) (Maccoby 1). For instance, different home circumstances... the divided home, or the neglectful home, or the mother-controlled home, or may be the overly demanding home, or the home with too many bosses, so all these different home atmospheres are major factors that affect the development of any child (Bossard 333). In addition, the parents’ attitude towards the child is mostly effective in the formation of the child's personality (Bossard 334). Furthermore, the genetic effect of the child is very important, researches proved that genes are one of the most effective factors in the parenting process, and genes affect the child's own behavior characteristics, and also influences the way the parents are tending to treat their son/daughter (Maccoby 5). I will explain the three major parenting styles and will prove that it is not possible to assume that there is one best style to follow, because each home or family have their own special cases or circumstances that will affect the parenting process
Writing has never been a strong point for me. As a kid punctuation was something composed of periods. Then slowly I learned of a structure that was integrated into all papers and it made me a worst writer. Just the fact that an outline was required made what was a creative process became a demanding and uninspiring paper full of blah. As a kid I was sat at a table and told to do my work. Now i have learned that my writing greatly improves if I have music to listen to. In this class I have learned many skills that have helped put the creativity and inspire me to wright not only papers I care about but papers that are a bit of me every time I wright.
Undoubtedly, humans are unique and intricate creatures and their development is a complex process. It is this process that leads people to question, is a child’s development influenced by genetics or their environment? This long debate has been at the forefront of psychology for countless decades now and is better known as “Nature versus Nurture”. The continuous controversy over whether or not children develop their psychological attributes based on genetics (nature) or the way in which they have been raised (nurture) has occupied the minds of psychologists for years. Through thorough reading of experiments, studies, and discussions however, it is easy to be convinced that nurture does play a far more important in the development of a human than nature.
in psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi, my psychology courses kindled more curiosity in youth psychological development, and I became cognizant of many unanswered questions that I had as an adolescent. Periodically, I pondered questions such as, “What characteristics of my friends helped assuage the concerns of my social environment? “Why did a large number of my peers not appreciate the morals that were important in school or as a well-rounded person? Was it because of their home environment, peer pressure, personality, or a biological disposition such as raging hormones or an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex?” I was also engrossed in courses where the theories of psychologists and researchers such as Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget provided insight about probable explanations for general life experiences and how such experiences are developmental in nature and can be accredited to a variety of factors such as culture, age, environment, and gender. By studying psychology, I felt that those burning questions I had as a teenager were sometimes answered by innovative research findings that were described in my textbooks and in academic journals. As an avid learner swayed by the soundness of prominent psychological theories, I then became interested in clinical child research and joined Dr. Christopher T. Barry’s Youth Personality and Behavior (YPB) laboratory as a volunteer research assistant during my sophomore year of
I always believed that you could see the effects of bad parenting, by studying the youth of today opposed to the youth of sixty years ago. The effects of bad parenting can be measured in many different ways. One of the things that we all forget about is “lead by example”. What we as adults, teach our children, is what our future generations will be as people.
There are countless factors, each significant, that play a part in molding and developing a child’s mind. The education system, the economic standing, the number of siblings, and the type of environment the child grows up in all play a role in the development of his or her personality traits. However, the most important aspect of raising a child comes into play at home, with the parenting style employed by the child’s mother and/or father. The four most recognized parenting styles – Baumrind’s authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and uninvolved styles – all impact a child’s habits, strengths, weaknesses, and personality traits. No objectively “perfect” parenting style exists, but there are without a doubt styles that produce more driven