Many people believe that children’s parents and close relatives have a huge impact on them, while others think that people from their environment outside of home affect them more. I think that young people get the most influence from their family since they nurture and educate children from the beginning.
I believe that parents have a bigger impact on minors because it is them who teach these minors to the baseline and shape their behaviour. Children spend most of their time with their family and people who they interact the most is their relatives. Consequently, most of their habits as well as values are based on their actions because at the young age, children absorb their close people’s behaviours. Mostly young people see either their siblings or parents as role models, and they look up at them. For example, children who grow up in a supportive and loving family, tend to be more confident later in life, despite the external factors.
Even though peers and teachers influence children, I think that their impact is not as significant as the family’s influence. While teachers play a role in intellectual development and friends in identity formation, it still remains on a limited level. The reason is children’s lifelong base are already shaped by their parents at early ages, which accompanies them later in life and everything goes through the filter of children’s core values. Children might be affected by others, yet the influence that family had remains on a deeper level, which defines their reactions and actions on situations.
To conclude, despite that external factors still impact children, I think that close relatives play a great influence on children’s development because it shapes their core values and behaviours