Nature and Nurture Issue in Child Development
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Thinking about the Nature/Nurture Issue in Child Development
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Thinking about the Nature/Nurture Issue in Child Development
The term Nature in child evolution refers to ancestral attributes that one is born with, the characters of a person, and their general appearances. On the other hand, Nurture refers to outward things affecting how an individual lives; they are qualities that one acquires after being born. They are influenced by their surroundings, infancy involvement, cultural activities, and communal engagements.
On the nature-nurture of human being evolution, the historical theorist John Locke believes that an individual is born with no capacity to think clearly. He goes ahead, refuting the fact that nature is inborn. He argues that how a person behaves when young in their day-to-day involvement significantly impacts them as they grow old during their interaction with other community members.
John Locke believes that Nurture entails the surrounding that shapes children’s character. He goes further explaining that when a child is born, their mind is blank. Therefore, through education, a child learns socialization or other attributes required to be a suitable member of the community. Locke finally concludes that a child’s character results from pressure exerted by the community through learning, imitation, interaction, and punishment (Crain, 2015).
On the other hand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French scholar and a historical theorist, has a different view on a child’s nature-nurture development. Jacques believes that a child was not born blank, as John suggests. Instead, he believes that children should have free will to think independently and learn according to their own genetic and biological timetable.
Different children mature at contrasting stages. He argues that the scenes of growth unfold in other times, thus bringing out the explicit biological description of children (Crain, 2015). However, both John Locke and Jean Jacques have a common similarity: the residence setting shapes children’s lifestyles through learning and cooperation.
Nature is a hereditary characteristic of a person; some illustrations include inherited attributes such as eye color,