Babies between nature and nurture
Childhood is the stage of growth, which is an important and very sensitive stage. Babies at
that point have the ability to learn and discover everything new for them. Each baby is
growing up completely different from one to another, depending on different cultures and
customs. There are number of factors that affect babies growth and behavior. Nature and
nurture are some of these factors. This essay will discuss about babies being raised, and
how nature affects babies, and nurture and its impact. (Nature, Nurture and Early Brain
Development)
In various cultures, babies are raised differently depending on the place or area they are
located. For example, in poor countries most of the basics of life are little or
semi-destitute. On other hand, rich countries will have enough of basic elements of life
that helps to raise the baby correctly. There are many factors affect the baby’s life, like
medicine, education, behavior, etc. So, babies all over the world do not have the same way
of being raised.
The first affect on babies life is nature. It is known that nature (our genes) greatly affects
characteristics such as height, weight, intelligence or autism. There are many studies that
prove that genes affect the life of babies. These genes comes from parents or grandparents.
Genes may play an influential role on certain behaviors, but they need to be activated for