samantha foster's List: social development

• Stages of Children's Social Development

• Socialization is the process by which the child learns to live  with others and acquires the patterns of behavior and thought that characterize  his culture.There has been a great deal of interest in child rearing practices  partly because of the immediate practical applicability of this sort of  knowledge and partly because of the importance of early socialization experience  in theories of personality.
• THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY  

  The first socializing influence is the family, and in  particular the mother or other caretaker. During the first months of life the  mother usually attends to the child's needs. She feeds him, changes his diapers,  and makes him comfortable. Thus the mother or caretaker is associated with the  reduction of needs.

   

  As we have seen earlier, the child begins to recognize the person or persons  who care for him and to distinguish them from strangers in the second half of  the first year of life. At this time the child first begins to turn away from  strangers and shows a strong preference for his mother. A few months later the  child begins to show separation anxiety. That is, when his mother leaves, the  baby may protest loudly, crying and showing every sign of extreme distress.  Fleener and Cairns (1970) tested infants ranging from 3 to 19 months, to  determine their reactions to maternal separation. The test involved the  departure and then return of the mother and another female and the results  showed that only the infants of 12 months and over showed a greater tendency to  cry upon the departure of the mother than of the other adult female.
• Social demands begin sometime during the second year. The infant begins the  process of weaning, in which he must give up sucking the breast or bottle and  drink from a cup instead. The sucking response is very strong in babies. Weaning  means the loss of the nipple and its pleasures

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• Learning social skills begins at birth. We are born social, with the need to  interact. It starts out with children bonding with their parents, then broadens  to children playing with siblings and friends, and eventually going to school  and becoming part of the larger community.

• Here are eight ways to support the whole child as you educate a child's mind  body and spirit in the ways of the world.
  
• What you feed children physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually is what  they will give back.
• You nurture children's emotions through building confidence

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