Being human

We focused a lot in class this week about how we, as humans, are affected by both our nature and nurture in our lives. Nature consists of our genes, emotions, instincts. Nurture is basically just our social environment, society, and interactions/relationships we have with other people. Both nature and nurture play off each other to create the person that we are now. All my life I've been in such a positive environment. My parents always played with me when I was little. I had siblings. I went to school. I had friends. I was healthy. My parents always told me how much they loved me. It was actually pretty surprising me to in class when we learned of the feral children and how they were raised in isolation and basically stripped from both nature and nurture, like how could I take everything I have for granted when there are actual cases out there where kids never got what I did? The one story of a young girl named Dani really stuck with me. Her mother basically kept her in a room for six years, until the police arrested her for child neglect. The young girl had no human interraction and had the mental capacity of an infant. This girl, who should have been in first grade, can't speak, can't play, can't write, can't do anything due to her lack of nature and nurture. After learning of these feral children, I don't think I'll ever get mad at my parents for little things anymore.