parenting fads are all prey much useless changing the way children turn out. Most parents should relax and feel less anxious about the long term effect they might be having on their child. We need to do more work to examine how appearant might affect kids who are at high genetic or environmental risk for psychiatric or behaviora problems. So as stephen pinker hasas argued, children aren't just blank slates or lumps of clay that we can shape and mould in any way we wish.
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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