The video I found for this week is showing how these two children are coming together to play a game. It is quite obvious to me that either they watched something or heard/saw something that would influence them in this way. Even something as simple as playing firefighter can show that the way children are raised in their environment will help them to act and do the things that they will in their every day life. Growing up in a home where my dad, brothers and even my uncles and cousins are firefighters helps me to personally relate more to these children in the video. As a child growing up with firefighters, EMT's and nurses always around me it really influenced me to act the way I would when I was around others and to always help those in need even if (as a child) I really didn't like them. Children are influenced by everything around them and I think that this is a good example of how a positive influence can have a very positive outcome. To watch the video please click here

This week when I was searching online for my blog post, I came across this amazing video. This video shows how the way that parents, adults and even teenagers act around children can affect them. It affects the way they act, dress, and even the way they socialize with others. Parent have the greatest influence on their children, so when they see them acting in a bad way, for example giving the middle finger, their child is prone to doing the same thing. This can have an impact on the way children socialize because if they see their parents getting into fights, or acting in a certain way, they too might act the way their parents do. The message this video gives off is a great one and I hope that you too are impacted by it and try a little harder next time you are around children to act in the right manner. To view the video please click on this link: social message

For this weeks blog, I decided to find an article on how technology is interfering with childhood socialization. The article I found from the nytimes.com is about how recess is no longer just to play, schools all over the country are worried because of the increase in bullying done on the playground. Coaches have been brought in from a national nonprofit called "Playworks" to 170 schools from the East to West coast. A study showed that children aged 6-11 spend more than 28 hours a week on computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. For children in past eras, part of childhood socialization was learning how to settle fights, make or break their own rules, and respect others. An estimation of 16,000 children miss school every day due to bullying. "It seems clear that there is a link among the increase of television and computer games, the decline in peer-peer socialization and the increase of bullying in our schools."

In my own opinion, I believe that technology is both helpful and harmful. It is helpful in the sense that it gives people the chance to discover things they wouldn't without the technological advances we have today. It is also harmful because as seen in the above article, it is tearing children away from going out in the real world and learning how to play with other children instead of virtually playing or watching T.V.

I chose childhood socialization as my topic because for my career in the future, I would like to be either a child psychologist or an elementary school teacher. Since I have been teaching CCD for a little over a year now, I have seen some behaviors that really stood out to me and I would always wonder what caused the child to act that way. I feel that doing more research on they way children socialize will help me to better understand the way some children act, and eventually help me in the future for my career.