Nature & Nurture
It’s good to acknowledge and keep reminding ourselves to not be micro-managing our children’s lives. It’s also interesting because science tells us that what we do as parents actually has very little impact on how our kids turn out as adults.
The nature vs nurture battle is mostly won by nature when the child is in the womb. Of course that doesn’t mean that how we treat our children doesn’t matter. There’s a slight nuance here that must be understood.
Psychologist Steven Pinker explains that nuance brilliantly in this 5 minute talk from 2002.
You must strive to cultivate a healthy nurturing relationship with your child, and provide for a happy childhood. But your tiny mistakes here and there, or even well-meaning interventions will not have as much of an impact as you think they would.
Checkout Dr. Pinker —
Nurture Myth — Parenting/ Upbringing Has Very Little Affect On Children
Read this funny article from ‘Vox’ that says most parenting advice is worthless, so here’s some parenting advice.
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