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Socialization in parents and children

Erika Paredes

Fresno Pacific University

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Socialization in Parents and Children

Methods of socialization are what revolve in a child’s life. Teachers, parents and

community surround a child. Everything a child learns from attitude, values, cultural practices

and actions are learned and imitated. They are either learned through media or by their caregiver.

As children grow, they learn what they see either in a small group or large group in society. As

well in what way’s it affects the family’s life and the children as they grow it either being media

or their parents. That’s when these research gives good explanations about what type of research

has been done to children, and who are involved in socialization groups or not.

There was an experiment on children and their mothers that established the sense of

young children, and how they learn a great deal with society from witnessing conflicts, and being

observed. In this experiment, there were three groups of children that were presented

individually. They first focused on three year olds who were mostly teach through demonstration

compared to 5-year-old children who provided verbal instructions. The last age was 7 year olds

who adapted to the needs of learning. As it continues to explain how children imitation helps

with information transmission through groups. It also explains how in some cultures they argue

that imitation plays a significant part in how the children transmit culture. It gives good

information in how children who have a relationship with other peers have a better sense of

socialization. Even though it does have consequence were social dynamic could affect a groups

process of information

Bronfenbrenner’s paradigm is a really good way in how to categorize how in each stage

there is something that gets added on as the child grows. Everything that revolves around a

child’s life in a daily based is important for their socialization with others. There are two
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propositions that define the properties of the model. For example, the first proposition states that

throughout life the human development take place through a process of a complex interaction.

However, for the proposition to be effective the interaction has to continue in a regular basis. The

article also gives examples of what patterns are found in parent-child and child-child activities.

Like group play, reading, and studying and athletic activities. The second proposition explains

the three fold source form, power and content effecting the development of the characteristics.

Having parental monitoring for children as they are growing up helps the parent to be informed

of their child and to help them set limits on their children’s activities outside of school and home.

The media affects the children and their socialization while growing up because they

spend more time behind a tablet than actually reading a book or playing outside. The same way

children would get attached to blankets, pillows and stuff animals, children now are crying for a

smartphone or a tablet. Just in the United States there are “seventeen percent of children”

between the ages two and eighteen that have a television in their bedroom. Media affects

children in their health as well and in the relationships that they start having in their schools. As

children grow they are influenced by what they see on television and many times that is what

they learn. Having an interpersonal interaction with friends and parents however influences girls

more. In the other hand, boys are influenced by non-personal communication. It depends more

on how parents are involved towards what the child watches and how long they let their child

watch television. I have witness children in my work environment that constantly act characters

they see in cartoons. Most of the time the characters that the children act out are violent.

Children learn through reading newspapers or magazines even if it is just looking at the

pictures and the colors. Even though watching television has there down side in the affect it has

to their children. Children most of the time even if they are taught the letters, colors and
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emotions, they still need to learn and experience it on their own. Children can learn through

media what they cannot learn through books. Children besides learning new information they

also learn how to express their opinions and their attitudes. As it is already in the reports done by

the research in the article it has been reported that children spend more time than their parents

watching television. Exposing children to media has their pros and their cons. For example girls

acquire information through incidental learning they also seek reality content earlier than boys.

However, it also teaches violence and aggressive behavior in children.

Media is everywhere you go from restaurants, stores, and schools and at home. One

electronic, or another surrounds children in this century. As much as we try to avoid the child to

have contact with an electronic it is going to happen eventually. Parents have a lot of

involvement in the amount of media their child is exposed to. Children are all raised in different

households that educated their children differently, either it being a different culture or

background. Having children educated and raised by having them exposed to different

experiences and letting them learn new things on their own is what parent’s should be doing.

Learning the socialization methods that affect children and the families has helped me in

my current job. I work with children and with families in any way possible even if it is just for

support. My job as a teacher is to help educate children and parents in what their children need

in. Having to do this research has helped me to be more informed in different ways how to help

children expand their socialization. Even if it is just by asking open-ended question to the

children about what it is that they are building with the blocks. The importance is to help

children learn socialization methods by being involved with other peers at school and in their

community. I will continue applying the information I learned by sharing it with my coworkers

and the parents that I will continue working with as well as their children.
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