Are Children Affected By Nature Or Nurture?

The debate of whether a child is more affected by their nature or their nurture is complex and mindboggling debate. There are strong augments for both sides of this debate; on one hand a person might be more affected by nature because they have a genetic disorder that affects how they react to certain sections. However a child might also be more influenced by nurture because nurture has to do with the way a person can be affected by their environment and the way that they are raised. I believe that a child is equally affected by both nature and nurture throughout their lives and that one is not more important than the other. Instead a child’s- future behavior depends on a delicate balance of both nature and nurture.
Nature is defined by the genetic and hormonal explanations for your behavior that you receive from your parents when you are conceived (McLeod 1). Nature has to do with things like your blood type and the biological traits that you receive for each parent that allows you to look like them. Nature also has to do with our sex drives and aggression and how they both affect our behavior (McLeod 1). However nurture is
how you are affected by the environmental experiences throughout your life as well as how you are affected by the way your parents decided raise you. Nurture has to do with the lessons you learn from the bad experiences and mistakes you make in life.
My growth and development is affected by a fine balance of nurture and nature because without both of these aspects you cannot live a balanced life. Nature affected my development because when I younger I suffer from secure attachment issues. Secure attachment is defined as when an infant mildly protest their mothers’ departure and seek comfort from her upon their reunion (P.240). This is related to nature because an infant naturally is closer to the mother because they grow as the mother dose. Nature also affected my development because babies naturally have egocentrism according to Piaget (P.235). Egocentrism is defined as the assumptions that other view the world as one dose oneself (P.235).
Nurture is also a very important key aspect of development because it is affected in some way by everything within your environment.
My development as a child was largely affected by nurture because of my parent’s authoritative parenting style. Authoritative parents are defined as parents who are strict and warm, they demand mature behavior but, they use reason rather than force in discipline (P.242). Nurture was also influential to my development because without learning skills with the help of my parents, such as writing and cooking, my zone of proximal development would have suffered. This lack of proximal development would have affected my overall growth and development. The Zone of proximal development is defined as Vyogotsky’s term for the situation in which a child carries out tasks with the help of someone more
skilled.
There should not be a question of whether a child is more affected by nurture or nature because; the successful development of a child depends on an even blend of both nature and nurture. A child has a certain amount of attachment when they are first born that they come to grow out of they also, tend to believe in egocentrism up to a certain point in life. However nurture also has to do with a child’s development because a child needs a certain parenting style to have a stable environment. The type of parenting style depends on the child’s parents and how they wish to raise their children. That is why nature and nurture are both equally important to growth and development and one aspect is not more important than the other.