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November/December Shepherdess Voice

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ecoming a mother, I often<br />

Since<br />

myself thinking about how to<br />

find<br />

just the right amount about<br />

care<br />

people think.<br />

what<br />

want him to have confidence to<br />

I<br />

firm under peer pressure, but<br />

stand<br />

necessarily true that my genetic<br />

not<br />

will be passed to my<br />

predispositions<br />

HOW FAR WILL THE<br />

APPLE FALL?<br />

by Brianna Martin<br />

on the best of me without<br />

pass<br />

on the worst.<br />

passing<br />

want my boy to love nature like my<br />

I<br />

and I, but I don't want him<br />

husband<br />

have the fear of bugs that I do. I<br />

to<br />

my boy to enjoy good food,<br />

want<br />

being as picky. I hope he’s<br />

without<br />

his father and enjoys trying new<br />

like<br />

I want him to have good<br />

things.<br />

like I do, but I want him to<br />

friends<br />

an easier time making them<br />

have<br />

I always have. I want my son to<br />

than<br />

to be as hard on others as I can<br />

not<br />

when they do things I consider<br />

be<br />

questionable.<br />

son has beautiful potential, but<br />

My<br />

are a lot of things that I can<br />

there<br />

in my personality that I<br />

identify<br />

he does not inherit. Thankfully,<br />

hope<br />

everything is determined by<br />

not<br />

A child’s environment is<br />

genetics.<br />

to character<br />

instrumental<br />

development.<br />

some ways, this is comforting. It's<br />

In<br />

"A child’s<br />

environment is<br />

instrumental to<br />

character<br />

development."<br />

son.

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