Canute: We should look at our children and work with them in that relationship to determine what is in their best interests. He says we don't want to force children into doing things that they don't want, but the whole interest thing s is really important. "We're geting a very strong case that there is a sort of intuitive, un experiencial belief that parents shape us," he adds.
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken.
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