Book: 20210817 to 20210924, "The Nurture Assumption" by Judith Rich Harris
20210818 - Preface to the First Edition xxvii This book is against most of the other books: our destiny is decided by peer/environment and gene, instead of parenting and education and habit? What's the relationship between gene, environment and habit? Is it possible to push some child who don't like reading to read everyday? 20210819 - Chapter 1. "Nurture" Is Not the Same as "Environment" 1 Nurture is important, but not as important as we thought. Children are not under their parents' control. There are too many thing that children cannot do following their parents, and there are too many words only the parents can say. Instead, the restriction is much less if children want to copy their peers' behavior or speaking. Nurture is a small part of environment. Parents' effect on children could be split into two categories. One is actually depends on children's effect on parents. We may not be able of doing on that, but the other categories is not