Children's behavior. Nature or Nurture?

I have two adult children, different as night and day. I believe every child is born with a temperament that parents may be able to tame but not change. The way you raise the child may teach him to control his temperament or learn to overcome or complement it in some way but you can't change it. Everything else to do with their personality I believe parents can influence. They can even influence their intelligence to some degree by making sure they have a good, nutritious diet with few chemicals or preservatives. Having a parent at home growing up will help manage that temperament and physical health, too.

its from the environment around them. school, t.v. friends. they unawarely pick up some habits that either become temporary habits to their character or permanent.

It's probably a combination of things like heredity, environment and opportunity. One thing that can be overlooked is that genes can skip a generation or generations, so that parents can have a child that neither looks nor acts like either of them. I am the oldest of 8 kids and each one of m brothers and sister are so different, yet in some things they all think alike. Human beings are interesting!

Six children! I bet that keeps you very busy. I am a believer in nurture.

It is a mixture isn't it of both nature and nurture. I also have seen and read about a child coming from parents who are totally different from the child and how he or she turns out to be. It really is a roll of the dice..sometimes a child may exhibit behaviors, traits, habits that are nothing to do with their parents or environment. It certainly is a discussable and debatable topic. Congrats on your six children.