Essays On Nature Vs Nurture

Nature vs. Nurture

Don’t you wish you could go shopping for your child’s genes as easily as you go shopping for your child’s jeans? You want them to be the star of the football team, or first chair in orchestra, maybe you want her to be the most popular girl in school. Don’t you wish you had the power to make the “perfect” child? You do have the power. It’s called nurture. The way someone grows up, the way someone is nurtured is what affects their lives in the future. Nature vs. Nurture is an argument that often comes up between people. Was that person born with it, or raised to be that way? Nature gives you the child; it is up to you to nurture it. How much of whom we are is shaped by genes and how much by our environment? Nurture is what shapes who we are because our peers influence our decisions, our parents raise us how they believe we should be raised, and we are not born with experience.

In high school there are cliques. The athletes, the nerds, the popular kids, the kids who never talk, the band clique, the list goes on and on. How do kids know what group of people they fit in with? They are influenced by their peers. If someone grows up watching the football game every Sunday afternoon with their dad, they are bound to play sports. Therefore he would fit in with the athlete clique. Versus someone who was raised around music, would want to play an instrument. People are not just born football players, or musical geniuses. It may seem this way, but there is much more to it than that. My dad was an athlete in college, and my mom was a dancer; now I am an athlete and dancer. I was shaped to be who I am by my parents. Of course, I was born with certain traits such as blonde hair and green eyes but, I was not born with the dedic...

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...u just have to make the best of it. I was not born with these life lessons, nature did not give them to me. I was taught them through my own personal experiences. Everyone is different; parents teach different lessons about different situations. The point is, we have to develop to who we are and what we want to become and without our parents, we would definitely not be who we are today.

As the Nature vs. Nurture argument rages on, there really is no need for it. One can argue nature makes someone who they are however; I have just given several examples of why that is not the case. Nurture is what shapes who we are because our peers influence our decisions, our parents raise us how they believe we should be raised, and we are not born with life experiences. Saying that you are born the person you are going to be is like saying you have no control over who you become.