An analysis of a Common Proverb

The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree

                A child has a predisposition to act similarly to his or her parents. The inherit predisposition to act similarly is based in both nature and nurture. Certain traits found in a child that relates to psychological and sociological factors, such as the psycho-social development, are genetically transferred traits. Certain genes found in both parents relating to extraversion versus introversion can be inherited. However, this genetic predisposition is a train of observable behaviors.

                Studies of psycho-social behaviors can be changed through the developmental stage and or through behavioral therapy (Carl Jung). As a result of this, we know and understand that if, for example, a child was born with a genetic predisposition to be an introvert but both his or her parents were extraverted, the child will develop similar behaviors to the parents. This nurturing of behavior can influence the predispositioned genetic trait to lessen and be replaced by the nurtured behavior that was taught and shown to them by their parents.

                Generally this nurtured nature of behaviors can also be transferred from isms and idioms of the guardian even if the guardian is not related by blood to the child that is being raised. They can develop similar speech patterns, accents, hand gestures and other types of isms related to their guardian more than anyone else. Though a child does also adopt behaviors from the ones they socialize with the most, it is almost a certified quantifiable idea that this will be their parents for the first years of their lives which will shape their main behaviors that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

                A child will develop traits from their parents and act similarly like them due to both inherited traits and also learned behaviors.  That naturally occurs during the developmental stages of the parent-child relationship. “The apple does not fall far from the tree,” indeed, it is a safe bet that a typical child will develop similar behaviors to their parents and or guardians.