Entry 1- Final

My Inquiry Question:



 Does the mother's nurturing role in a child's early life affect the way the child interacts with others mentally, emotionally, and physically later in life? I chose this as my inquiry question because I have a curiosity about the effects that mothers have on their children and how the amount of nurturing that a mother gives to a child affects them later in life, whether it be the amount of time that she holds her child or even how often a mother feeds their child. I feel that this is an area that has really not been studied much but I feel that in researching this it will allow me to further understand the effects of a mother's nurturing and why it is important. I feel that this is an important question to ask because it allows us to study the different situations that children grow up in and to study the impact that their surroundings has on their life in the present and in the future. I have not personally experienced this because I am lucky enough to say that my mother was around and has been very caring through my whole life. But this is where I am curious and I start to question if I would have made different choices in my life if that were to have been different.



I was first interested in this question because I want to understand how influential our mother's still are in today’s generation and in our lives. I also wanted to learn how children are impacted differently when they grow up with the absence of a nurturing mother and the emotional support that a mother can provide. After reading the book Nineteen Minutes in class I started wondering the impact of mothers based on the relationship that the shooter in the novel had with his mother. They were once very close but something happened later in his life that led him to draw away from her and I wondered what she had done to help contribute to his actions. I believe that people should care about this subject because it allows everyone to understand the effects that mothers have on their children in a generation where we feel that our parents do not dictate who we are and who we become. I feel like if mothers will understand that they make significant impacts on their child’s life rather it be the present and in the future, mothers would start to be a lot more nurturing and caring. When I studied “The Relationships between Mothering in Infancy, childhood experience and adult mental health” article Henry Massie talked about the mental and physical impacts that are driven by the amount of nurturing and care that we receive as children.

 Throughout these blogs I will explain the research that I have found behind the impact that a mothers nurturing does have and the effects that it has on the children.