Nurture

I. Things I remember about my childhood a. Meet my parents b. A broken home c. A Positive role model II.  A life of service d. In the Army now e. Hard times III.  Marriage and my family now f. Married with children g. The wonder years h. Tomorrow and beyond IV.  Final thoughts and conclusion

In retrospect the journey that my life has taken from childhood to the present, has been a whirlwind of ever-changing dreams and desires.  I’ve gained an appreciation of who I am today, the factors that have motivated me to continue, and a deeper understanding of the path I would like to follow as I pursue future goals.  In my development I believe the foundational building blocks of who I am can be traced to the nurturing that I received from multiple parental sources within my environment.  I was born a black child and raised initially within a dysfunctional poor family environment.  The very nature of my parent’s genetic make-up with alcohol issues, abusive tendencies and intellectual differences.  Leads me to believe my life should have turned out much differently if genetic nature was more at play in my development.  There for I think that for the moment I feel that nature along with the nurturing environment shaped who I am today.  I feel my life is a text book argument for nature vs. nurture. 
My life’s journey from birth to present day has been an exhilarating, ever-shifting tumultuous trek.  I was born the only child of a Southern–Baptist couple; my father was a high school dropout while my mother was a college graduate.  With this information and understanding nature vs. nurture it could be easily said that my life could have gone in any direction when it comes down to my educational future.  Based off of…...

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certain traits about us are innate or are learned.  It remains a mystery to this day.  In my opinion,
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be born evil, just like dogs can’t be born evil.  This has been proven inaccurate after several cases of
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The flight test director for Boeing and a drug addict living in a trailer have more in common than you might think; in this case they are siblings.  The brothers are born from the same parents, raised in the same home, given the same opportunities, yet polar opposites of one another.  Scenarios such as this pose the question of what makes a person who they are, their environment, or their genes.  For centuries the controversy between nature and nurture has been argued among experts.  The debate is whether environmental influences or genetic inheritance is responsible for our human makeup. 
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...finish reading the verse it also says “but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live” this gives us hope that if we live by the Spirit there is hope in life.  Furthermore we can see answers for how nurturing plays a key part inside our lives.  Inside the bible we can see a lot of examples of what the bible says about nurturing a child to adult to bring them up right and proper.  The best example I have found is inside Ephesians 6:4 to quote it says “bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord”.  This is a great example of how to raise a kid inside a household. 
Moving forward to develop an answer to the first question on my opinion on the idea of the whole argument of Nature vs. Nurture took me on a road that really has left me with more questions than answers.  What I have to say about this topic is based upon a lot of my personal experiences with addiction as much as with other addicts.  To say out right that one’s environment causes there total outcome in life would be a total fallacy in my eyes.  For out of a broken home with both parents who are addicts two siblings can emerge with two totally different outcomes.  So does this mean that we are born with this so called human nature to sin that some choose not to divulge into.  This is the big problem I have with the whole argument as a whole.  I would have to say as a Christian I know that my God says that we are all born with a sinful nature to do wrongs.  Yet were......

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