SOCL 2505 Chapter : CH 9
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What are parents supposed to do for their children: 1. Provide the main setting where fundamental needs are met: 2. Supply most of the love, nurturing, care, and trust that children receive: 3. Responsible for training their children in life skills i. e. driving, manners, cooking and cleaning, potty training, walking and talking basic skill set: education system can help but mainly up to parents, 4. Provide guidance, support, and discipline in later life (continues on into adulthood) Families are major source of primary socialization: what its like to be a member of society i. e. how to act in grocery store; how to act in society. Socialization as support and control: two broad ways in which parents socialize children, 1. Provide emotional support love, nurturing, acceptance: helps children feel positive about themselves, children want to please parents so they do things to make them happy if you can be positive, it helps them be positive, 2.
