Message #910

[JJ]

But the world isn't perfect Andy.  That's the whole point.  So many children are abused and consequently their behaviour is affected by it - not taught by anyone.  And that is from a child development perspective.  You now change the goal posts a little as earlier on you said that for children to learn - someone must be teaching them.  I questioned that and you have now changed to saying that they must be learning to do something wrong.  They are habituating their response and that might be wrong, and that might be learnt behaviour - but there is no-one teaching them that.  That is what I am asserting.


There's an interesting fact about the language thing - for the first 9 months any child is sensitive to the accent it hears around it - children who are introduced to a new language later than 9 months quite often cannot distinguish subtle differences of pronunciation whereas babies who have been around that language from birth can tell the difference.  And often in Wales it's impossible for non Welsh speakers to pronounce ll as natives do.  It's not innate but heard from the womb. 

It's wrong to compare siblings from a family if one turns out bad, no-one can tell the psychic effects of birth and upbringing on an individual, it doesn't mean that the bad person was born bad - biochemical, circumstantial and innate abilities cause every person to turn out different.  One person thrives in a lovely family - another is suffocated by the same family conditions or a very bad experience at school.  Our experiences make us what we are and most people grow quite well, but some are ruined by something another would find a healthy challenge.