No point disciplining your kids if their nature is to be brats.
2007-10-19 06:20:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are finding that children are born with certain personality traits and that depending on their personalities different approaches have to be taken for raising each individual child.
I have fraternal twin nieces, and they couldn't be more different. One twin is almost sad in her nature, is quiet, moody and very sensitive. The other is happy all the time, outgoing, and very talkative. They get this from their genetic predisposition.
All this means is that their parents have to interact with them accordingly. One requires a more sensitive approach while the other doesn't require much sensitivity at all.
Both require love to become confident, secure self-actualized adults. One just requires a little more reassuring than the other.
2007-10-19 06:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe nature overrides nurture, at least not as a majority.
What you might have heard is that nature will override nurture if put in extreme circumstances.
Such as, you are raised not to take from others, stuff which does not belong to you, or that you have not paid for. In extreme cases of hunger or other circumstances, nature will out weigh nurture and you will steal to stay alive or to keep another that you love alive.
2007-10-19 06:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by cindy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think this is valid R&S question, but...
There've been TONS of studies over the last hundred years on this. Nature doesn't override nurture. We can't act outside our nature, but within our nature we have a HUGE range of possible behavior dependent upon nurture (aka environmental factors.) It's too simplistic to make it an either/or argument. For example, you can't breathe underwater because of your nature. However, your environment (the modern world) enables you to wear self contained underwater breathing aparatuses so you can swim underwater without coming up for air. The same goes with our behaviors--we can't help but be human, but there are many different ways in which we are shaped by our world. K then, buh bye.
2007-10-19 06:28:20 · answer #3 · answered by average person Violated 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nature - primitive existence: a basic state of existence, untouched and uninfluenced by civilization. Nurture - environmental influence: the influence that an organism's environment has on the organism, especially when contrasted with what is determined genetically or by nature. Human beings are persuaded by both; sometimes more than the other, but of course it's politically incorrect to make your argument.
2016-05-23 18:17:53 · answer #4 · answered by dimple 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seriously misunderstand the, well, nature of nature and nurture.
There are characteristics that we're born with. 'Brat' isn't one of them. Strong-willed is, but it's a matter of how the parent deals with the strong-willed child that leads to them becoming a brat or merely someone who knows their own mind.
Although through extreem and abusive methods it might be possible to "break" such a child (though you might instead have the effect of creating a monster), if you're not a monster yourself, you can't turn a strong-willed person into the opposite, or vice versa.
Just as every child has a maximum intellegence level; you can do things that help them get to that max, but if they're not terrible quick, you can't make them be more so.
If a child just isn't strong verbally, there's nothing you can do to make them so.
Some children are more people-centered than others.
There are quite a few characteristics that are just who you are born as.
But then exactly how you manifest them, and whether they are pluses or minuses to you depends on what happens after you're born.
2007-10-19 11:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most professionals in the field of Human Development, psychology, education and counseling believe that nurture is extremely important, especially if by nature children are difficult or have behavioral issues.
2007-10-19 06:44:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to a point yes but animals are more nature than nurture they still teach their young how to stay alive and have an emotional bond of some kind There is surely a balance especially in us who are more advanced
in case you have not noticed lots of people don't know how to teach their human children....sorry that is important to me
2007-10-19 06:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by just duky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a link that proves nature overrides nurture?
2007-10-19 06:23:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's only if it is a question of one or the other. Seems to me it's actually a balancing of the two...
2007-10-19 06:23:20 · answer #9 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who said it does?
2007-10-19 06:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by Link strikes back 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋