Childhood Socialization Essay

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Childhood Socialization UNR HDFS 635 Abstract This paper is about how my parents raised me growing up and how I foresee me raising my children. I’ll talk about a few types of socialization; operant and cognitive, and how they fit in to how my parents raised me, and how they will fit into how I will raise my children. I will look into my past and analyze what my parents and I have done to shape my socialization as a child, and indeed for my whole life. I will talk hypothetically about raising my own children, what I hope for them, and what I hope from me. My Socialization Paper This paper is going to talk about childhood socialization, mainly mine and my future children. First we will discuss the methods of socialization that I was raised with, and how I was raised. Second, we will talk about important socialization aspects of my life and how I influenced myself. Finally we will talk about what I think I will be like as a parent and what I hope to accomplish. While growing up, my family instilled three ideals that I hold important. They are trust, scholarship, and patience. Trust is important to me because it allows me to build great relationships. I learned the value of trust from my parents when they would let me go out and play. They trusted me to make responsible decisions for myself, to come back home on time and to have fun but not get into trouble. Scholarship is important to me because in knowledge is power, and even if I lose everything I still have my education. At an early age, my parents would tell me that I needed to have an education when I grew up. To emphasize this point, they started me in preschool when I was three years old. My third ideal is patience because few things in life are instant, and for good things I have to wait. I dealt with patience as a core value when my little sister was born autistic. This fact of our
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