Thursday, October 14, 2010
Human Nurture
In class this week we found out that without human nurture, humans can act like "wild animals". I found this very interesting and mind boggling. I was stunned to find out that all kinds of different animals have raised human baby's. For example wolves, bears, monkeys dogs and so on. When we watched the episode about the girl that is 11 but acts like a 2 month year old baby I was shocked. I learned that in order for humans to develop we need to learn from someone. Sal used an example of how his daughter imitated him when he was doing something that she has never seen. When we watched Oprah, a Doctor compared a normal brain of a young child to a feral child, the brain of the feral child was much less developed than the normal child. This proves that love and nurture is needed for humans to grow. My parents being in the working class, thought me to be polite, neat, obedient and gave me a smack to the head if I did something bad. Even though I hated it as a young kid, I now understand that because of their jobs and being bossed around all day, it shapes their parenting style.
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i fell the same way about being taught to be obedient,neat,and polite as kid. I fell that society has turned its back on parents/ or other adults being able to hit kids around. It was good fro kids it taught them a lesson and taught them to be tuff. Now we got a bunch of sissies and weenies running around. Bro.
ReplyDeleteReferring to the comment above, hitting your children is not alright. I understand maybe that's what your parents are around all day or how people grow up, but it's ridiculous. There are hundreds of ways to reinforce good behavior and punish bad behavior without hitting another human being. Your not teaching anyone to be tough by hitting them; there will be plenty in their life that will build their character and make them someone strong.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how you raise your own kids - will you be more upper middle class like this area where you live, or will you be more working class like your parents? I would have thought parents, but in my own life I am living now in a more upper middle class area and that is how I am raising my kids - not like my working class parents raised me (with physical punishment).
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