Emotions and social skills are two crucial items in a child’s development. Your child should not be glued to the television nor should you have them hanging on your leg. There is an area which is right in between those two. Children need to be socialized and well behaved in order to eventually grow up and manage a teenage lifestyle. If they are not properly socialized it could lead to ridicule, judgment, and loss of friends. The socialization starts growing from the beginning of your life when your parents raise you. The more a child feels “in place” where they are will lead to good things. No child ever wants to be left out. Parents need to teach their children that their behavior affects them as a person and other people around them. You want your child to be a valuable and wanted member of his/her:

• Family
• Team
• School
• Community

If the child has a problem with these four aspects, the child could result in socialization problems now and in the future. Children should be allowed to express themselves but in a way that is appropriate and not rude or conceited. Parents need to guide their children in ways of behaving and social approaches. My neighbor, a young little girl, rudely interrupted her mother while she was speaking. The little girl needs to know the manners to have when someone else is speaking. Does this mean that the girl could be showing these flaws at school too? Interrupting a teacher or being disrespectful? If parents display respect in their home then they are teaching their children to act like that as well. Children look at parents as their mentors and if their parents tend to do something over and over, the child thinks it is ok. For example, if a child gets away with the same misbehavior because his/her mother feels too bad then the child is never going to learn. Later in life, you cannot act like that towards your friends or classmates or you will have problems keeping them.

This video can help you with more information for actions you can take for growing and socializing with others!! I hope you like it!

“The term social refers to a relationship or interaction between two or more people, who by definition respond to each other and influence each other’s behavior.”

Try to remember one of your first days of school in elementary school. Were you excited or scared? How do you think a child now-a-days would react on their first day of school? Social development happens in the earliest years in our brain growth. Our brain grows the fastest when we are little. Children learn how to be disciplined and how they respond to discipline. Their individual behavior is connected to socialization as a child.

1.  The family and parental influences
2.  Dimensions of parental behavior
3.  The effects of punishment and disciple

These three things are learned and developed throughout childhood. I remember as a child wanting to go to school because of the cute outfits my mom bought me (which meant I could wear them more). I was a fashion diva when I was little!-Thanks to my mom. My mom spent a lot of time with me because she was a stay at home mom. She taught me behaviors, manners, and socializing. She’s the one who picked my friends for me (basically) because of the “play groups” and at someone’s house or the “Mommy and Me” classes at the YMCA. She set up the environment I grew up in and adapted to.

One of the boys I went to school with in third grade was such a brat! Or at least that’s what it seemed like…He would always cry and hang onto his mom as she left and then he would pick on girls or misbehave during school. He clearly had an imbalance and his parents did not teach him how to behave. The parents were not giving their son enough attention so he had to DEMAND it at school.

There are many cases of socialization and there are reasons to why they differ from others. Socialization of the child determines how the parent relates to life. 

Childhood socialization can be explained in different ways. It could be defined as describing the experiences and interactive relationships that build human nature into that object and person called “child” rests on special languages, is located in special kinds of situations, and is focused around special kinds of social objects and how they affect them. The way your parents raise you is the main causation for a child’s make up--from how they treat people to how they want to be treated. The time period could affect children in a positively or negatively depending on exposure by the parents. Parenting in general has certainly changed from 40 years ago.  The world was a much safer place to grow in autonomy. Technological advancements are at its peak and young children know how to operate them! This past Wednesday, at work, a little boy stomped on and kicked a toy. What made him act with anger like that? What could have spurred the violence from home?

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In a simple way, childhood socialization is the way children were brought up and how the things they became accustomed to, affect them. One of the main reasons I picked this was because I have worked at a daycare center  (infants to 10 years old) for over a year now and I have seen  and questioned many behaviors in the children I have watched. I am going to be researching more information and observing the children I work with to discover different behaviors.  What causes this behavior? Technological advancements?