Developmental Process From birth until now I have seen myself develop in a number of ways. I have not just grown physically, but I have grown mentally and I continue to do so day to day. From my first step to my first physical activity. I have seen myself progressively grow. I can remember my first incident feeling guilty, and the time I decided to accept Jesus Christ as my savior. These moments have defined me into the man I am today and have allowed me to grow as a person everyday. Before you even realize your life is influenced by many factors that you have no control over. As one begins their life they are shaped my nature and nurture. These two words mean so much in a child’s development. Nature is defined as our biological …show more content…
It stayed like this for awhile but as puberty hit (high school years), I caught up and surpassed many classmates in physical growth. Being small throughout my childhood had an affect but not a dramatic one. I still remember being QB on my sports teams, being tall enough for the roller coaster, and finally getting to the age where you have some responsibilities. To sum up my physical growth i may have been a late bloomer, but I ultimately caught up to my fellow classmates. While learning about physical growth I saw how I followed patterns discussed in the modules. I saw how growth and maturation affects people at different times. The notes said, “Growth is uneven across age.” This was very true about my own growth. I may have been slow to start growth, but I agree that at different ages people grow at different rates. I also see how the majority of physical growth is done by the age of 20. The next section that I felt affected my development in a huge way was my moral development. The first time feeling guilt was a very clear memory in my life. In chapter 14 the book discusses how your first feeling of guilt is because of a term called morality of constraint. This term basically means how you realize what you did was wrong because higher authority (parents, adults, or elders), punishes your actions. Back to my first real memory of feeling guilty I was around the age of 5-7. As I convinced my friends on the bus to hold their tongues and say
In the "nature vs nurture" debate, nature refers to an individual's innate qualities (nativism). Nature is your genes. The physical and personality traits determined by your genes stay the same irrespective of where you were born and raised. Nature factors that trigger an individual to commit crime are influences by biological and family factors. The nature method suggests that individuals are born with qualities, abilities and characteristics that determine the kind of person that individual will become.
Everybody grows at different paces. No two people on this earth will share the exact same opinions as one another. The pressures of society should not rush people through their pursuit of finding themselves. One’s own experiences in life will determine how and when they will grow. As Henry David Thoreau states, “It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak” (Thoreau). The apple tree and the oak are both beautiful things. Two very different people can both achieve a beautiful life. Society shall not dictate who you shall become and how fast you shall achieve such goals.
Nature or Nurture. Nature may be all of the genes and hereditary factors with which influence them to become who they are such as physical appearances and personality characteristics. Nurturing impacts people’s lives as well as how they are raised and all the environmental factors. In combination, these qualities can be the true identity of oneself. Many people may argue that nurture appears to a play huge factor in the two, but others may think otherwise. Not having both as a characteristic can have a negative effect on a person physically and mentally. The debate of nature versus nurture appears to be the oldest argument known to man, and it still remains to be unanswered. In the old-age argument nature versus nurture, nature may play a huge role in determining a person’s true identity.
Scholars around the world commonly discuss the topic of “nature vs. nurture” in relation to the importance of an individual’s inherent qualities. All aspects of human behavior are affected by both nature and nurture, operating together. Nature refers to the factors that have shaped the genetics that we inherit from our parents and ancestors. Nurture refers to all the things that have influenced us since we began to develop- even from the moment we were conceived. Therefore, nature determines the range of our human potential while nurture affects the ways that our human potential is objectified, being helped or hindered by good or bad environmental contributions.
The time I first experienced growth was when I went on my first mission trip ever, and it just so happened to be over the weekend of my 16th birthday. I did not know anyone in my group, yet we were united with a common goal to serve our community. Going into the weekend I thought I would inspire and help people, little did I know that in my own life I would be inspired. On our first day serving the community, we went to a neighborhood in Los Angeles, that had severe poverty, to help families obtain food and play with the kids. The apartments had broken windows, barely working doors, and bars to protect outsiders from coming in, yet the people were so humble and happy. All the other students in my group were either speaking Spanish to help the elders, drawing with the little kids, or playing soccer. My new friend Alec told me to join the soccer game, so I did. I was put on a team with my new friend Kevin, and two brothers named Diego and Jesse. Half way through the game my competitive side grew and i began to feel less restrained, so I kicked harder. I ended up kicking the ball so hard it hit little 5 year old Jesse in the head, I felt remorse. Jesse surprised me with a huge smile as to say,’
Growing is hard! True growth can be very uncomfortable and frightening. It means that I have to step outside my comfort zone. To mature as a person is what I strive for. I want to mature emotionally, socially, and physically. To be open to growth you have to try harder and that is my motto. Try as hard as you can and you will never fail! I want to be able to take responsibility for my growth! After the four years at Ignatius hopefully I can achieve all of the
I was also growing at a quicker rate than the majority of my peers. My confidence gradually increased when I interacted with others because I now rarely had to physically look up to people. Although it was difficult for me to continually do what I initially thought was pointless, my mom kept pushing me, and I was able to experience a sense of success with something as simple as drinking milk. Because of this, I was convinced that I was able to do anything with a bit of perseverance, so I started applying the idea to everything that I wanted to accomplish. My parents' mishap and my success drew me towards my newfound passion for curative nutrition. I became fascinated with how proper care and nourishment could have such positive effects on the body, such as forming strong bones, so I now strive to influence children and adults to become more cognizant of this
Abstract: I’m Growing provides children with an important message about growing and how the body changes. This book would be helpful to have in an early childhood or elementary classroom because it will provide children the understanding of how they grow. Introduction I’m Growing by Aliki Brandenberg, is one of many books that talk about health.
Nature is of the belief that inherited traits found in our genes make us who we are. From the day we are born, we are subject to society, which play an important role in who we are by way of family, friends, and media. Any situation we are subject to has an impact on us. I remember my parents scrutinizing my older brothers about the friends in which they chose to
Nature versus Nurture is the issue of the degree to which environment and heredity influence behavior and development. In this issue nature can be defined as, behaviors due to heredity. Which means behaviors are based on the genetic makeup of an individual and is an influence of the individuals' growth and development throughout life. On the other hand nurture are causes of behaviors that are environmental. Which means the influence is from, parents, siblings, family, friends and all other experiences to which the individual is exposed to.
One of the oldest debates in psychology is nature versus nurture. Nature is the inborn, innate character of an organism. (Spencer A. Rathus pg. 56) Nurture is the sum total of the environmental factors that affect an organism from conception onward. (Spencer A. Rathus pg. 56) Basically nature is what you have from heredity and nurture is you environmental influences.
Nature: refers to heredity, the genetic makeup an individual carries from the time of conception to the time of death. This notion of nature refers to the biologically prescribed tendencies and capabilities individuals possess which may unfold themselves throughout the course of life. Some examples are hair color, height, body type and eye color. I was born into a larger family, my mom and dad
There are many different variations of language, language that is seen, such as sign language, body language and written language, then there is the language that is heard, such as people speaking. There are over 7,000 spoken languages in the world alone without taking into consideration nonverbal languages. For adults and children alike, this can be overwhelming because in each language there are different behaviour patterns, different registers, different age groups and what is acceptable in one language may not be considered acceptable in another such as how close is too close to stand to someone else. For children who come from families whose first language is not English, this is even more difficult when trying to live somewhere that doesn’t predominately speak their first language, which is just one of the many differences people have to be aware of when considering diversity. This essay will examine the different environmental and circumstantial factors that may influence the development of children and the role that language can play in their lives as they grow, such as what and who children are exposed to, positive and negative influences such as adults and other children and the lifelong impact these surroundings have on the child.
In a developmentally appropriate, well organized environment, children grow and learn. The teacher is responsible for creating a pleasing environment that reflects the needs and interests of the children. The classroom should be designed to promote self-help and independent behavior.
Infant development is greatly influenced by the environment which the infant grows in. Some important environment factors are the economic circumstances, cultural values, family structure, etc. These types of environmental factors can shift how the infant develops, and if certain milestones are achieved earlier or later. The environment has more of an impact on the infant than people may think it does.