It is commonly believed that nowadays main factors that affect a child's development are media, pop culture and friends. A different point of view is that family plays the most significant role. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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development

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of

childrens

a young person of either sex

children

. There are many theories about

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factors

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, and these have evolved a lot during the

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century but

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currently there are two factors that are considered the most influential. The

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one is the most “classic”, the family. Obviously, the family plays an important role in a child's

development

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, because it is the

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social contact that we experience, and we spend

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much

time with our family.

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, our parents and elder brother and sisters, teach us the basic social rules and it’s quite normal that small

childs

a young person of either sex

children

child's

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try to imitate their

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parents'

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

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, normally it’s our family who

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in charge to impart discipline when we act wrong, and those who praise

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when we act well. For

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reason there are many people who think that the family is the main factor in a child's

development

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is another theory that says that nowadays media, pop culture and friends are a more relevant factor. People that believe

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, maintain that when children become older, they try to connect with other people outside the family environment like friends and classmates, and in order to achieve

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, they could be influenced by common interests like pop culture, other ideas that could become more important than family values.

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, social media plays a very important role in a child's

development

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because nowadays it’s very difficult to interact with friends without using it. The social media is a very powerful tool to communicate with many people, but

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are many

influencers

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

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, who can condition our ideas and way of thinking.

I personally

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I, personally

, think that the family is a more important factor, because affects us earlier than social media, and for

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reason, depending of our family environment, the late factors as social media can be

canceled

(of events) no longer planned or scheduled

cancelled

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