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[quote=Anonymous]They both matter but nurture “plays a bigger role” because it’s the one we have control over. Nurture can make the most of what nature has provided. Nature might make a person predisposed to depression, but nurture can get them support and help develop skills and tools to manage it more easily. Nurture can also deprive someone of support while struggling with mental health and make it much worse. Nature might predispose someone to be very intelligent or less so, very volatile or even tempered, very athletic or very uncoordinated. But parenting dictates how these natural tendencies help or hinder a person. I think the mistake people make us just blaming nature for problems when the whole point of nurturing is to help address them. People also sometimes take credit for natural attributes (like your kid being strong and very coordinated) but that isn’t harmful. But giving up on a child because of their natural tendencies misses the whole point of parenting.[/quote]
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