Can you think of another explanation to the differences between children in the same family?

Zaphi
Reading/ Writing
July 7th, 2010



Pag. 10
Shared Writing
Question 3
Can you think of another explanation to the differences between children in the same family? Why?





The text we have read this morning only talks about the influence family and birth place takes in our lives. However, there are a lot of facts that influences in us as persons.

The first we should talk about is about our genes, our natural heritage from our parents. Maybe this genes won’t determinate our personalities, but it will influenced our physical bodies. For example, they will make us tolerant to lactose, or maybe we will have more tickets of being sick, or develop a cancer.

This is important because the body condition will end up affecting our lives. Our mental health is completely dependant on our body health. Because of it, when we become sick more often in our life, we tend to be lonelier or sadder than someone who rarely gets an illness, who will be happier.

The second thing we need to take in account is the people we have in our lives. Not only the family but also your friends, teachers, partners or we can even count people we talk to in the bus.
This people share their lives with ours. They also influenced in our decisions, which are important to build our personality.
In addition, people also share their experiences and opinions. This information will also have an impact in our personality, believes and empathy.

We can also talk about or gender. Right now, and in general, people are really trying to support the idea of everyone being its own person and being unique. Ironically, some people try to tell us both men and women are the same. Being a boy or a girl is one more difference between individuals.

Because of your gender, we get difference expectations. If you just pay attention to a child rising, it varies if the child is a girl or a boy, especially in more traditional families where girls’ duties are to take care of their husband and their children.

However, even nowadays in a culture where we are supposed to raise our children without caring about our gender, boys tend to be stronger and usually play sports better than girls do. In the other hand, girls tend to be more empathic with people, and even when they are young they usually play with dolls, which nurture their mother nature.
The differences grew bigger in adolescence, when the bodies of girls and boys change. Girls need to take care of their period and boys have to deal with the change of their voices.
At the same time, girls worry more about they beauty and health meanwhile boys try to be more confident and be (or look) stronger.

The last thing I will talk about, and for me is one of the most important ones, is the experiences we live.
Essentially, we easily change our minds over and over again. And that is because we live so many different experiences over time. But this is important, because the most important thing about life is not getting the good decision, but rather the one is a mistake.
These mistakes are the ones that affect our personalities more. When you take a good decision, you get happy. But when you get a good one, you learn from it.
We can easily think about personality as our methods to make decisions and to consider our choices. After all, as human beings we are, we keep doing decisions. It doesn’t matter what moment, or even second, you are. You are always making decisions, and that is the condemnation of our freedom.

To sum up, even if birth place will affect us, there are so much other facts that will completely influence in our personalities. On account of this, we should be able to have different personalities than just the ones the birthplace gives to us.