Weekly Writing 2 & Second Draft - Freya

Nowadays environment is being increasingly important for personal development, especially in early time. Meanwhile, it has evoked a fierce controversy relating to whether nurture affects early human development or not. In my opinion, both nurture and nature affects it, but the nurture more strongly.

Granted that there are many aspects in nurture, every one plays a crucial role in our lives, it holds such a view based on the following reasons. To begin with, it gose beyond any doubt that the family is the starting point. Parents are your first teachers from whom you know the world. They give you love, and you will learn how to love and feel loved. If you are born in a happy family, you will become optimistic. Furthermore, people attach great weight to education. Most of them believe that the earlier you learn, the cleverer you are. For example, there indicated that practice or extra stimulation could enhance the appearance of motor behaviours to certain extent from more recent studies. Last but not least, our health also depends on the stage of growth. As the mother contacts with measles during the first three months of pregnancy, the baby may suffer from some problems of body, such as deaf and blind.

However, given that nature cannot be changed, it definitely belongs to part of our character. DNA and genes determine our sex, the colour of skin, even personality.

All in all, although there many factors influence early human development, obviously we are affected more by outside environment. Therefore, by maximum using surrounding resources, we could improve ourselves to be more suitable for the changing society.


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Nowadays environment is being increasingly important for personal development, especially in early time. Meanwhile, it has evoked a fierce controversy relating to whether nurture affects early human development or not. In my opinion, both nurture and nature affects it, but the nurture more strongly.

Scientists convinced that nature cannot be changed. It definitely belongs to part of our character, such as DNA and genes which determine our sex, the colour of our skin and eyes. We even inherit IQ and familial diseases from parents, as well as personality.

However, there are many aspects in nurture, every one plays a crucial role in our life; it holds such a view based on the following reasons. To begin with, it goes beyond any doubt that education is crucial for everyone. The family is the starting point that parents are your first teachers from whom you know the world. For example, there pointed that practice or extra stimulation by parents could strengthen the appearance of active behaviours to certain extent from recent studies. Moreover, most of people believe that the earlier you learn, the cleverer you are. Children could improve themselves more than others by hardwork. The second is our health, which depends on the stage of growth. A balanced diet together with physical exercise must enhance our physique. For instance, a report was about a boy, who was diagnosed with congenital heart disease and could not live over 15 years, but he did persist in jogging every morning and eating healthy food more than 25 years. Finally, the personality could be changed. A news I read before is about a pair of twins in different circumstances. One of them was sent to a wealthy home and became optimistic and ambitious after the adult; the other in a divorced family, on the contrary, was pessimistic and unsocial. The fact is that although they had the same DNA, the totally opposite circumstances led to the totally opposite results.

All in all, there many factors influence early human development, but obviously we are affected more by outside environment. Therefore, by maximum using surrounding resources, we could improve ourselves to be more suitable for the changing society.