It is only the second day of class and I am already learning so many new and wondrous things about development. I have looked at development in terms of domains i.e. cognitive, social-emotional, and biological, and understood the impact of genetics (nature) and environment (nurture) on development. However, I never really stopped to think about the fact that development is multidirectional, multidisciplinary, multicontextual, multicultural, and plastic. We think of all the things that go into making each of us a unique being, but I realize now those things are so infinite that we cannot begin to sum them up. What's even more amazing is how nurture can effect nature and vice verse.

We talk about the effects of parenting styles on children, but we do we consider that the parenting style is affected by the child's temperament. "Nature in fact can elicit a certain kind of nurture. This is most evident when a temperamentally difficult child is quick to cry in anger. That response may cause the parents to be more punishing" (Berger, 2009).