Genes are a section of a DNA molecule that is responsible for building one protein or RNA of an organism. Genes are responsible for the innate characteristics, psychotype and health of the child. Genes pass programs not to the next generation, but through the generation, that is, your genes will not be in your children, but in your grandchildren. And your children have the genes of your parents.
Genes determine our physical and mental characteristics, genes specify that we, as humans, cannot fly and breathe underwater, but we can learn human speech and writing. Boys are easier to navigate in the objective world, girls — in the world of relationships. Someone was born with an absolute ear for music, someone with an absolute memory, and someone with the most average abilities.
By the way, it depends on the age of the parents: the average age of parents who have brilliant children is 27 for mothers and 38 for fathers.
Genes determine many of our character traits and tendencies. In boys, it is a tendency to engage in cars, not dolls. Genes influence our individual predispositions, including disease, antisocial behavior, talent, physical or intellectual activity, and so on.
At the same time, it is important to always remember: propensity pushes a person, but does not determine his behavior. Genes are responsible for propensity, a person is responsible for behavior. Yes, and you can work with your inclinations: develop some, make them loved, and leave some out of your attention, extinguish them, forget …
Genes determine the time when some of our talent or inclination will manifest or not.
He came at the right time, when the genes are ready — he did a miracle. Missed on time — you fly by. Today, the susceptibility to the educational process is open — “a white sheet” or “absorbs only the good”, and tomorrow, as the king from the film “An Ordinary Miracle” said: “My grandmother will wake up in me, and I will be weird.”
Genes determine when our sex drive wakes up and when it falls asleep. Genes influence both happiness and character traits.
After analyzing data from more than 900 pairs of twins, psychologists at the University of Edinburgh found evidence for the existence of genes that determine character traits, a tendency to be happy, and the ability to tolerate stress more easily.
Aggressiveness and goodwill, genius and dementia, autism or extraversion are passed on to children from their parents as inclinations. All this can be changed by upbringing, but to varying degrees, since the inclinations can be of different strengths. Whether a child is taught or not is also related to his genetics. And here we note: healthy children are quite trainable. Human genetics makes man an exceptionally trainable being!
Genes are the bearers of our abilities, including the ability to change and improve. Interestingly, men and women have different opportunities in this regard. Men are more likely than women to be born with one or another deviation: among men there are more of those who will be very tall and very short, very smart and vice versa, talented and idiotic. It seems that nature is experimenting on men … At the same time, if a man was born this way, it is very difficult for him to change this during his life. A man is tied to his genotype, his phenotype (the external manifestation of the genotype) changes little.
Born long — long and stay. Shorty can rise 1-2 centimeters with the help of sports, but no more.
For women, the situation is different. Women are born more on average the same, among them there are fewer biological, genetic abnormalities. More often of average height, average intelligence, average decency, idiots and sludge among women are less than among men. But those who are outstanding intellectually or morally are similar. It seems that evolution, conducting experiments on men, decides not to take risks on women and invests in women all the most reliable. At the same time, individual (phenotypic) variability in women is higher: if a girl was born small relative to others, she will be able to stretch 2-5 cm (more than a guy can) … Women have greater freedom from their genotype, they have a greater opportunity than men to change myself.
Genes give us our capabilities, and genes limit our capabilities.
A proud wheat ear grows from a wheat grain, and a beautiful branched apple tree grows from an apple tree seedling. Our essence, our inclinations and the ability to realize ourselves are given to us by our genes. On the other hand, only an ear of wheat will grow from a grain of wheat, only an apple tree will grow from a seedling of an apple tree, and no matter how much a frog inflates, it will not swell into a bull. She doesn’t even have enough strength to burst from the effort.
Man is also a part of nature, and all of the above is true for him. Genes predetermine the limits of our capabilities, including our ability to change ourselves, strive for growth and development. If you are lucky with your genes, you have managed to perceive the influence of your parents and teachers, and have grown up as a developed, decent and talented person. Thanks to parents! If you are less fortunate with genes, and you (suddenly!) were born down, then in the best environment only a well-bred down will grow out of you. In this sense, our genes are our destiny, and we cannot directly change our genes, our ability to grow and change.
How much genetically embedded in us is a very controversial issue (the interaction of heredity and environment is studied by psychogenetics).
Rather, it is true that the more a person moves away from the animal world, the less in him is innate and more acquired. For now, it must be admitted that most of us have a lot of innate. On average, according to geneticists, genes determine human behavior by 40%.
Under favorable conditions and a good educational process, a possible negative predisposition may not be realized, or it may be corrected, “covered up” by the influence of neighboring awakened genes, and a positive predisposition, sometimes hidden, may appear. Sometimes a person (child) simply does not know his capabilities, and categorically “putting an end to it”, saying that “a swan will not grow out of this ugly duckling” is dangerous.
Another danger, another risk, is to waste time and energy on a person from whom nothing good can come of it. They say that anyone can become a genius, and theoretically it is. However, practically one needs thirty years for this, while another needs three hundred years, and it is unprofitable to invest in such problematic people. Sports coaches argue that it is innate talent, and not training methodology, that is the most important factor in shaping a future champion.
If a girl was born as a brown-haired woman with green eyes and a “predisposition” to be overweight, then, of course, you can dye your hair and put on colored lenses: the girl will still remain a green-eyed brown-haired woman. But whether her “predisposition” to fullness and large sizes of clothes worn by all her relatives will come true depends largely on herself. And even more so, it depends on her whether by the age of forty, sitting in this huge size, she will scold the state for an unfinished life (as all her relatives do) or find many other interesting activities for herself.
Can a person change, sometimes overcome, and sometimes improve his genetics? The answer to this question cannot be general, since this is also given individually genetically. The most important thing is that today no specialist will give you a definite answer, you will find the answer yourself, only by starting to work with yourself, starting to change yourself. Whether it is possible to change this child (or ourselves) in the direction we need, we can understand only by experience, starting with this child (or with ourselves). Get started! Genes set opportunities, it depends on us how we realize these opportunities. If you have good genetics, you can make it even better and pass it on to your children as the most precious gift. Our DNA remembers what kind of childhood we had, there are observations that habits, skills, inclinations and even manners are genetically transmitted. If you have developed good manners, beautiful manners, set a good voice, accustomed yourself to the daily routine and responsibility, then there is a good chance that sooner or later this will enter the genotype of your last name.
Genes determine our inclinations, our abilities and inclinations, but not our destiny. Genes determine the launching pad for activity — for some it is better, for others it is more difficult. But what will be done on the basis of this platform is no longer the concern of genes, but of people: the person himself and those who are close to him.
Genetics can be improved — if not always in one’s own destiny, then definitely in the destiny of one’s own family. Good luck genetics!
Bad genetics and upbringing
Children from boarding schools often have poor genetics — not only in terms of health, but also in terms of inclinations and character traits. If ordinary good parents without special training take a child to raise, they can struggle for years with the fact that the child steals, does not study, lies, and so on in full. Nobody canceled genetics.
It is in connection with this that one must be very careful when people want to take a child from an orphanage to raise. There were cases when a family adopted a girl at the age of 9 months, whose mother was a prostitute, and despite the values of this family, at the age of 14-16, the girl fully “remembered” her mother.
On the other hand, these difficulties should not be exaggerated. Hidden problem scenarios of difficult children are not the most common option; more often, successful or problematic inclinations of children are visible from childhood. In addition, the experience of A.S. Makarenko more than convincingly says that with quality education, children with almost any genetics turn into worthy people.