Is a child's development lead by genes or the daycare environment?

Ever wondered if your daycare children’s development determined by his genes or his environment? What is the correlation between the child’s genes and his environment on his growth?

Studies seems to suggest that a strong correlation between your daycare children’s genes and his physical developments such as growth to his body, brain, vision and dietary needs but the environment seems to have a stronger correlation for psychological development such as social, emotional and cognitive developments.

Studies also revealed that as a person develops, the correlation between a person and his genes on his behaviour will grow increasingly weaker whilst the correlation between a person and his environment on his behaviour grows increasingly stronger.

This has highlighted the importance of a daycare provider on the daycare children's behaviour. And therefore, as a daycare child giver, it is essential to ensure that your daycare children grow up in an environment where learning is encouraged to mould children with a positive lifelong learning attitude towards being self directed learners.