What is nature and nurture? Nature is the genes and personality one person is born with while nurture, or nurturing, is the act of teaching one person habits and how to have good personality. So which has a greater impact on the upbringing of the child? I personally believe that Nurture and Nature both have an impact on the upbringing of a child but a child's nature has a greater impact on his or her upbringing.
A child can be nurtured from young to do certain things. For example, a child can be born left-handed but be trained to use their right hand instead. A child can also be nurtured to do things in a certain way or talk to people in a certain way. However, one can only be nurtured to act in someways and do things in someways when they are at a very young age.When they are older, and their true nature and attitude start to become more obvious and prominent, it will become harder to nurture the child to do otherwise.
When a child is older, his or her true nature and personality will start to become more prominent as he or she will commit more acts that shows that. For example, a child who has and extreme dislike for coloured people from young will tend to show his or her dislike for coloured people openly only at an older age as he or she will become braver. As children grow older, they tend to become more rebellious, hence they will not listen to their parents when their parents tell them do act or think otherwise. When the children do not listen to their parents, it shows that nurturing in that aspect has failed as the parents will not be able to nurture their children to do otherwise.
Hence, this shows that nature has a stronger impact on the upbringing of a child than nurture or nurturing. However, nature can be stopped at an early age. Parents can try to communicate more with their children to find out their nature and their personality when their children are young. This way, it will be easier to nurture the children to do otherwise.
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