influence

Parental Influence and Interference  (117-118)

                -typically: parents are praised for a child’s success and shamed for a child’s failure

“The major source of human misery” is the “neglect, wounded child” in each of us. (Bradshaw)

-Shared environment influenced typically account for less than 10% of children’s personality differences “Two Children in the same family [are on average] as different from one another as are pairs of children selected randomly from the population.” Robert Plomin and Denis Daniels

 

Peer Influence (120-121)

-Peer power: as we develop we must play/ work/ mate/ partner with peers. Children and the youth are very sensitive and responsive to peer influence

-“When in Rome, they become Romans.” (Harris)

-part of similarity to peers may result from “selection effect”

Parental nurture is like nutrition***

(Nedjine )