Beginning at the moment infants are born into this world they are already wired to learn,

grow, and develop. They enter with their senses, their cries, and their brains ability to form
synapsis making the connections that are needed for further learning and development. From
that moment forward it depends on the child themselves in getting what they need from their
caregivers and environment, and their caregivers for providing the support and experiences
necessary to promote learning and development through the childs increasing abilities, needs,
and wants to learn. There are many theories about growth and development from birth through
adolescence, but each one is narrowed or too specific in only looking at one aspect, either the
child or their environment, when in all reality these go hand-in-hand in creating what a child
needs to grow and learn and how they learn. In my own philosophy of how children learn, grow,
and develop, parts of these well-known theories give me a solid basis for my own personal
views.
From infancy children are ready to learn and they do follow through the stage-like
development noted by Jean Piaget in that they actively construct their knowledge by first
experimenting with their own body and senses, and then moving outward to their environment,
and the stage-like development noted by Erik Erikson in that as children grow through the stages
they are confronted by psychosocial conflicts in how these are resolved either supports or hinders
their development, but its not just the child alone, it is also how their caregivers and
environments interact with them as Lev Vygotsky and Urie Bronfenbrenners theories note, and
as Albert Bandura and B. F. Skinner note a childs own behavior is learned through imitation and
can be reinforced. Each of these major theorists were groundbreakers in looking at the separate
aspects, but each of their pieces offered to us fit together neatly and nicely to form a whole child
view on learning and development. Personally for me this makes sense on how some children
can develop typically, because their nature and nurture mutually benefited one another beginning
in the womb and continuing throughout development, and how some children show atypical
development either from genetic or environmental reasons. It is no longer nature versus nurture
pinned against one another as to which has the most effect on development, but more so how
they work together promoting development.