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The invisible software your parents installed before you knew you were a computer.
means The way a person is raised and cared for through childhood, including the values, manners, and habits instilled by parents or guardians.
from A plain English compound bolting "up" onto "bring" — the same "bring up" you still use when you say someone "was brought up well." English has a fondness for these up- creations (upkeep, upstart, upshot), and "upbringing" arrived as the noun for the long process of bringing a child up into adulthood. The "bring" itself is deeply old, traceable to Old English bringan, with cousins across the Germanic languages.
- accent
- Your childhood region's voice survives in your jaw forever
- money habits
- Spending patterns largely set before age seven
- epigenetics
- Early stress can switch genes on for life
- taste
- Food preferences forged by what mom ate pregnant
- resilience
- Predictable chaos beats unpredictable calm for kids
oprah winfrey — born to unmarried teenage mother in rural mississippi, 1954, became world's most influential media mogul
elon musk — raised by engineer father in south africa during apartheid, moved alone to canada at 17
malala yousafzai — educated by father in swat valley pakistan despite taliban ban on girls' education, shot at 15 in 2012