Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. One thing about child upbringing is that it is not as easy as people try to make it seem. You can be a great parent and still see your kids choose a path you never imagined they'd take. You can be all about being right as a parent and still end up having kids for whom only doing the wrong thing brings them joy and happiness. The way a kid is raised plays a significant role in the child's behavior, but it is not always how they are raised; some kids get to inherit some of their parent's behaviors whether the kid wants them or not and whether the parent wanted to pass such traits unto their kids or not.
You must agree with me that parents have traits that they don't want their kids to take after, but it's funny how those traits they don't want their kids to inherit are exactly what they end up inheriting. I like to spend most of my time indoors, and I don't see anything wrong with that, whereas most of my siblings and friends like to be outside at all times. Whether the reason is valid or not, they just feel like spending most of their time indoors makes them sick, and then there is me, who feels like spending most of my time outside in a world filled with so much chaos will make me feel sick, which is not a lie because so much time outside causes me to have headaches.
It is my lifestyle both at home and anywhere I find myself. I prefer to spend time indoors than outside. When I went to live with my uncle, he made it an everyday reminder that my behavior of wanting to spend most of my time indoors is how my mom lived her life too while they were growing up. Sometimes she just gives herself something to do just so she does not leave the house, and even if friends come home to drag her out, she will tell them she has something to do, and she never finds staying indoors or at home boring, and it's funny how I take after her. Staying indoors is not something I learned; it is just something I grew up and found myself doing, and even when I try to go out, it takes little or no time before I start feeling the urge to go back home, and this is proof that behaviors can be inherited.
Also at a young age we were all taught how to respect elders, and today as adults we cannot deviate from those teachings; respecting elders is a behavior many of our parents made sure they imbedded in us. Respecting elders is a behavior we practice, but it was not inherited; rather, it was learned. A child's behavior can be both learned and inherited; it is not always one-sided. Sometimes it is the combination of both that determines the type of adult a child grows up to become.
A kid's behavior and path they choose to follow are determined by a lot of things; it can be inherited, it can also be learned, and then the type of environment they grow up in also has a role to play in the type of adult a child will grow up to be.
Many things influences kids behaviour
I know that child behaviour can be learned and inherited but the learned part is more powerful than the inherited part. Reason why is that a good parents will teach their child about right and wrong, teach them about morals and values, and teaches them God's way yet the same child can go astray due to the friend he/she is mingling with.