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Classic Debate: Parenting Doesn’t Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)

2025/2/19
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Robert Plomin: 我认为父母给孩子最重要的东西是基因,而不是教养方式。心理学过去过分强调环境的作用,但现在越来越多的证据表明,基因对我们的影响更大。环境的影响并非像我们想象的那样,不是系统性的教养,而是随机的。如果你从小被收养,在不同的家庭长大,你仍然会和你现在很相似。我们应该爱孩子,而不是试图改变他们,顺应他们的基因,帮助他们发展兴趣和擅长的事。父母应该放松,享受与孩子相处的过程,欣赏孩子们自然发展。 Stuart Ritchie: 我认为父母的影响被大大高估了。我们仍然受到弗洛伊德的影响,认为父母的行为会对孩子产生重大影响。但这种假设是错误的。聪明的父母有更多的书,孩子也更聪明,这与遗传倾向有关。所有的人类特质在某种程度上都是可遗传的。即使父母的影响很小,也不意味着不应该对孩子好,因为音乐、舞蹈和文学本身就很有价值。育儿潮流之所以短命,是因为它们对改变孩子的发展方向几乎没有用处。我们应该少关注强迫孩子走特定道路,多关注把他们当作同类来对待,享受他们的陪伴。

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For today's Classic Debate we're revisiting our 2018 debate "Parenting Doesn’t Matter (Or Not As Much As You Think)".

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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