Nature vs Nurture

Nature vs Nurture

Looking at our kids, we often ask ourselves, will love and effort be enough for them to grow in kind, mature and loving creatures? Will it be enough if we observe and repair all mistakes in our behavior then transfer these great traits to them? Or is it an indefinite circle of making similar mistakes, predeterminate with our nature and there is absolutely nothing we can do to change it?

As a Molecular biologist and Geneticist, I know that nature makes most of it. Genes will establish traits of any person and the environment will act as sharpener - making some traits more or less highlighted and dominant and rest of them silent. 

How can we act as parents to silent some of our kid’s not so desirable characteristics and should we do it at all? 

It is a very specific set combined almost perfectly to fit every creature and serve him to help in adaptation and survival. For human beings, this set of characteristics is often socially focused, to reach his full potential in society but in nature, solitary success is often in greater demand.

To enhance the chances of growing a healthy and kind person maybe enough is to give a lot of love with careful observations done in the core of offspring’s nature-it’s first couple of years when the majority of traits are developed and visible. There we can see the true nature of our kids and try to help them in the process. Protect, care, show. 

Finally, we can not do a lot to change their true nature which will be fully presented in their grown-up phase. But by then, little people growing into big ones will be nurtured enough to be aware of all mistakes they are about to make or they have done and hopefully will change their behavior towards a better version of themselves. So yes, nurture can beat nature if performed well:)

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