Sir Isaac Newton: Childhood 

The causes and effects of Newton's childhood 

1. Newton was born three months after the death of his father.

• Due to this Isaac never had a masculine or father figure in his life which led him to rebel. 

     2. When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband,  the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother,  Margery  Ayscough.

• Because of this, young Isaac developed a pure hatred for women. Also, he disliked his stepfather and held some hostility towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this quote:" I remember threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them."

     3. He was removed from school, and by October 1659, he was found at Woolsthorpe near  Colsterworth, where his mother, widowed  now for a second time, attempted to make a farmer of  him.

He hated farming.Henry Stokes, master the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. This he did at the age of eighteen, achieving an excellent set of results.