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Title: Family Lessons

Family is the basic unit for a child's social development according to a speech by Dr. Beth Handman. A child's behavior is largely shaped by how their parents initially handle them. As family structures change, how children are socialized is also changing. Common ways to socialize children include rewards for good behavior, punishments to set limits, and modeling behavior through role models. While rewards can strengthen relationships, punishments risk teaching children to bribe others. The most powerful socialization tool is modeling good behavior as children learn from family members and other influences like teachers and television.

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Title: Family Lessons

Family is the basic unit for a child's social development according to a speech by Dr. Beth Handman. A child's behavior is largely shaped by how their parents initially handle them. As family structures change, how children are socialized is also changing. Common ways to socialize children include rewards for good behavior, punishments to set limits, and modeling behavior through role models. While rewards can strengthen relationships, punishments risk teaching children to bribe others. The most powerful socialization tool is modeling good behavior as children learn from family members and other influences like teachers and television.

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Title: Family Lessons

According to Dr. Beth Handman’s speech, family is the basic unit for a child’s social

development. As morning shows the day, a child’s behavioral outcome is totally based upon

parents’ initial way of handling them. Since the primitive definition of family having a father and

a mother is changing to many different modern kinds, the procedure of socializing a child is also

changing. Some common ways of socializing a child are rewards, punishments and modeling.

Firstly, rewards are positive reinforcements for good social behavior by a child. It

enhances the positivity and healthy relationship between parents and children. For example, a

parent might say, “Finish the work to watch TV,” and that indicates a child is bound to get

rewarded for his behavior.

Punishments, on the other hand, set strong impacts on a child. They circle a child to a

limit beyond certain regulations as for example, when a parent says, “No TV for bad grades,” the

child remembers to get good grades for watching TV. However, punishments can be

controversial as well. Sometimes children can learn the act of bribery. For example, “Take the

garbage to get cookies,” may teach a child to bribe someone in the future than developing

responsibilities.

Finally, modeling is the most powerful tool for social development of a child. It is about

following examples, making role models, and admiring people. For example, when a mother is

studious then the children are more likely to be the same. Children model their family members,

societies, teachers and television as well. Sometime TV may lead to negative consequences as

80% of programs have inappropriate contents.


Parents have important hands for the social development of a child. The development is

based upon their way of teaching and handling them, or serving themselves as role models.

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