Study Says Parents Can Influence the Toys Kids Play With
This New Study Found That Parents Influence Their Kids to Play With Specific Toys
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Although these findings may not seem straightforward at first, Woods said the results could open up a larger discussion about how we parent our children.
"This is the 'nature or nurture' debate as it relates to sex differences," she said. "The crux of the nature/nurture debate is, 'How much of behaviour can be altered and how much is just the way it is and can't be changed without somehow changing our physical makeup?' Can we decrease behaviours that put us at a disadvantage and increase behaviours that are good for us?"