Children Communication

Children Communication

Children Communication

Introduction

Communication skills in young children and teenage need a variety of influences to develop. Children starved of these skills at a young age may never develop them at all. It is believed by many people that you learn more between birth and the age of five than any other time in your life. This may be the reason why children deprived of theses inputs in childhood may struggle to pick them up. Giddens says that things as small as smiling at a child are triggers for social skills (Bugental, 1998).

Once a child is considered an adult (usually eighteen and over) many of the communication processes change. The adult has a more difficult time enforcing rules and regulations and they tend to rely on the moral values that they instilled earlier in their child's life. In the context of love, the young adult continues to receive affection and loving comments from their adults, but usually not as often. However, the adults' expectations of the adult child still remain in effect. The adults continue to communicate their expectations of the child from making good grades in college, to raising a family.

Discussion

There are many contrasts in adult-child communication of children over 18 years of age in Russia and the United States. There is a universal practice of decreasing active parenting as a child grows older; it appears that this decline in communication dwindles quicker in Russia than in the United States.

Communication is the scientific study of human behaviour and activities. It is concerned with how human beings think and act as social creatures. Communication is the process through which we become human. It is through our interaction with society that we learn what is necessary to live in each society.

There are four main agents of communication among teenage: family, school, peers, and mass media. Among these agents some sociologists believe that family is the most important to the child's development. Why? Some sociologists believe family is the most important to the child's development, because within the family we learn self-concept, we also learn the basics of who we are. Family is the best arrangement for bringing up children to be mature.

Family is the oldest institution on earth, and it plays a vital role in human society. Most families consist of a father, a mother, and children. Grandparents may live in their own households as long as they can. While contact is kept up with more distant relatives, responsibilities toward these are limited. Parents are considered role models within the family and therefore have a great bearing on our gender role. Some sociologists believe that children are socialised into their gender roles and hence in their gender identities by the family in a lot of ways. The first of these ways is Manipulation. This consists of parents (or other family members) encouraging behaviour that is seen as the norm for the child's gender and discouraging behaviour that is not considered the norm ...