What is Child Social Development

When a child grows he does not only show growth and development in physical, mental, and emotional
levels, but also on social level too. Child social activities grow with the passage of time, that is
called socialization process, which continues throughout the life.
Definition of Child Social Development
Child Social Development defined as:
1. It is a process to attain maturity in social relationship
2. A learning process to confirm to a group standard, morals, traditions
3. A process where new types of behavior is learnt, change in interests occurs and new friendships
are developed and
4. An adjustment to a new environment
The speed and nature of social development vary from age to age and mental abilities of students /
persons. Social development is a learning process which must be very carefully monitored and guided by
all those who are incharges or guardians of a child.
Factors of Social Development in Children
The Following are some agencies and factors that affect social development in children:
1. Family and Home environment
2. School and Teacher Role
3. Parental Style
4. Peer Group
5. Media
1. Family and Home Environment
The status of family has great impacts upon a child. You will see great variations in children. One of the
causes of that will be of the family background. In order to have a balance personality’ of a child, there
must be great cooperation between parents and their children. As according to Franks: “Home & family is
the only institution for child’s socialization and transmission of cultural heritage which shapes the basic
structure of child’s personality”. Islam also stresses upon cordial working relationship among the
members of family to bring up children and make them useful citizens of society.
2. School and Teacher Role

Next place where most of social development takes place is school and the influencing role of a teacher.
The more good and cordial atmosphere is in the school and good relationship with teacher the more good
social development will take place.
3. Parental Style
The parental style must be very democratic and involved one for the sack of children. Those children
show greater social development and emotional maturity whose parental style is democratic and involved
one.
4. Peer Group
In peer group a child gets social independence and make. Some decisions to define his / her role. Here a
child shares his /her feelings and emotions independently and get influenced by. The children start self-
confidence and from time to time new habits are developed which shape a child personality. The
guardians must help the children to be the part of good peer group. As an old saying says:- “Man is
known by the company he keeps”.
5. Media
Now a days there is great information explosion. Every person has very easy access to all kinds of
information. The most commonly available informational machines are internet, cable TV and Mobile
phone system. All these means of information can be used in positive and negative ways. Now it is the
responsibility of children’s incharge(s) to guide them on the right path.
In short, Social Development in children is a very important area of learning and building up of balance
personality. This is the responsibility of school, teacher, and home / parents that children must be fully
developed in social relationship with human sand with the value system of particular society. For social
development in children new techniques and methodology must be explored.
Values Development
Explanations > Values > Values Development
Periods of development | Becoming principled | So what?

We are not born with values, so how do people develop their values? There are three periods
during which values are developed as we grow.

Periods of development
Sociologist Morris Massey has described three major periods during which values are
developed.
The Imprint Period
Up to the age of seven, we are like sponges, absorbing everything around us and accepting
much of it as true, especially when it comes from our parents. The confusion and blind belief
of this period can also lead to the early formation of trauma and other deep problems.
The critical thing here is to learn a sense of right and wrong, good and bad. This is a human
construction which we nevertheless often assume would exist even if we were not here (which
is an indication of how deeply imprinted it has become).
The Modeling Period
Between the ages of eight and thirteen, we copy people, often our parents, but also others.
Rather than blind acceptance of their values, we are trying them on like a suit of clothes, to see
how they feel.
At this age we may be much impressed with religion or our teachers. You may remember
being particularly influenced by junior school teachers who seemed so knowledgeable--maybe
even more so than your parents.
The Socialization Period
Between 13 and 21, we are very largely influenced by our peers. As we develop as individuals
and look for ways to get away from the earlier programming, we naturally turn to people who
seem more like us.
 Other influences at these ages include the media, especially those parts which seem to resonate
with our the values of our peer groups.

Becoming principled
It's tough to have high moral values, but some people get there.
Pre-moral
In the pre-moral state, we have no real values (we are thus 'amoral'). Young children are
premoral. So also are psychopaths. Our basic nature tells us to be Machiavellian, doing
whatever it takes to achieve our goals, even if it means hurting other people.
Conventional
Most people have conventional values, as learned from their parents, teachers and peers. These
basically say 'here are the rules to live in reasonable harmony with other people.'
The bottom line of this state is that we will follow them just so long as we think we need to.
We will break our values occasionally, and especially if our needs are threatened or we are
pretty sure we can get away with breaking values with nobody else knowing about it.
Principled
When we are truly principled, we believe in our values to the point where they are an integral
and subconscious part of our person. Right and wrong are absolute things beyond the person,
for example as defined by a religion.
The test of a principled person is that they will stick to their values through thick and thin, and
even will sacrifice themselves rather than break their principles. Many great leaders were
principled (Martin Luther King, Gandhi, etc.).