A Child's Verdict One tends to feel that a child should grow up under certain conditions, which will effect their learning and progress. This has been the overall belief in child psychology. A child’s atmosphere plays a major role in how they may be shaped which could include effecting their attitudes, actions and behaviors. This atmosphere entails a parent’s: treatment, restriction, caring and teaching of and to a child. It also includes interaction by their teachers, pupils and others, besides their parents. In the case of a boy only in elementary school named Robbie Mackessy from the novel, A Map of the World, he is effected negatively by his surroundi