Topic: Nature VS Nurture
I found
this topic of nature versus nurture to be very interesting. I now better understand how nurturing plays
such an important role in our lives. When I reflect on this topic I think of my
sister, her and I are six years apart, we share the same biological parents and
yet we are completely different from each other. When I was born, I had both my mother and
farther in my life, living in the same home. By the time I was six years old my
father had disappeared from our lives completely. My mother was pregnant with
my sister when my father decided to leave our family. From the day my sister
was born, she never experienced having a father in her life. Although we share the same genetic make-up, we
could not be more different when it comes to personality traits. I am very
outgoing and confident, whereas my sister is a very introvert person and seems
to have a low esteem about her. I learned that neither nature nor nurture is fully
to blame for the way we turn out; they can both influence each of us in our
lifetime. I was the first child born so
it makes me wonder if having more attention given to me made me more outgoing,
or if I was just born with more confidence. Was it because I was allowed to express myself,
or was it because I was put into a more diverse environment. When I look back
at how it was in our home when I was a baby versus when my sister was a baby,
we had very different environment surroundings. Because my mother became more
protective after going through a divorce, did that influence my sister’s
personality traits? I look forward to looking more in depth to this topic in the
chapters to come in regards to human development.
I wrote about nature vs. nurture as well, but i didnt really compare my own siblings to myself. I have two brothers, one two years older than myself who always teases me for being a "redneck" because i would rather ride a bucking bronco, clean stalls/tack, or watch Duck Dynasty over learning how to program a computer which is his interest. this kind of surprises me because we have the same parents and are very close, yet we have totally different interests. My younger brother who is 10 years younger than myself seems to be more social and has more sass than my older brother and i. my younger brother biologically is my half brother, but i have known my stepdad as long as i can remember so i never really consider him a half brother.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to how you and your sibbling are completely diffrent. My older sister is only a year older than I am but we are complete opposites. She has always been very outgoing & definitely out spoken. I'm more shy and laid back. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that she is older and had more of protective role? It would be intresting to exam it on a larger scale.
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