I think the environment we grow up in and the friends we meet during our stage of development are both important factors that can affect our later development. For environment, if we grow up in a warm family with sufficient parental care, we will most likely become happy and well-behaved children; if we grow up in a family where there is no love and no parental care, we will mostly likely become children who misbehave and often keep their feelings to themselves. As for friends, we will be affected by what friends we get along with. If they are hard workers, we will also work hard. If they skip classes all the time, we will follow suit and skip classes. Both of these factors are important in shaping our developmental path.
I agree that environment and friends are very important factors. Friends often pick up habits or traits from friends. To add on to the environment comment, a child growing up in a problematic environment may be less likely to have high adaptability later in life and potentially could not develop as well. A child who is lucky enough to avoid tragic or a continuously stressful environment may lead to better well-being later in life.
I agree too that the environment is important and especially friends. Peer pressure often wins out in many cases, so friends must have some special extreme effect on kids and how they grow.
-conscriptvirus
-- Edited by 102intro on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 12:23:55 AM
