Growing up with siblings can influence a child profoundly through the years of their development. In “Science Looks at the Sibling Effect”, Ira Flatow interviews Jeffrey Kluger, author of the book, The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us. Kluger describes the current scientific research on the effects of siblings on human behavior. Throughout the radio broadcast, Kluger depicts many research and observations towards young children with and without siblings. Sibling rivalry is a sizeable part of this research. How does sibling rivalry affect children as they reach adulthood? “Socialization is the lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world, beginning at birth and continuing until
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According to Charles H. Cooley, the “looking-glass self is a reflective process that develops the self-based on our interpretations and on our internalization of the reactions of others” (89). When fighting or getting into arguments, children tend to get over things fairly quickly. When kids are in playrooms, skills they continue to practice are taken out with them onto life later on. Kluger states that there are a lot of studies that show that conflict resolution skills that are used when children are younger tend to be used when they become a few years older. Physical fighting for kids at home translate to a greater likelihood of them fighting at school and later on in life. Children who seek help from their parents are obtaining wise assistance. Parents who intervene, teach children more on how to resolve conflict sophisticatedly. Based on the looking-glass self, children are taught ways in how react to certain situations and how to respond. Children who grow up as a single child and children who grow up with companions tend to have different approaches to the world and somewhat different conflict resolution
According to Charles H. Cooley, the “looking-glass self is a reflective process that develops the self-based on our interpretations and on our internalization of the reactions of others” (89). When fighting or getting into arguments, children tend to get over things fairly quickly. When kids are in playrooms, skills they continue to practice are taken out with them onto life later on. Kluger states that there are a lot of studies that show that conflict resolution skills that are used when children are younger tend to be used when they become a few years older. Physical fighting for kids at home translate to a greater likelihood of them fighting at school and later on in life. Children who seek help from their parents are obtaining wise assistance. Parents who intervene, teach children more on how to resolve conflict sophisticatedly. Based on the looking-glass self, children are taught ways in how react to certain situations and how to respond. Children who grow up as a single child and children who grow up with companions tend to have different approaches to the world and somewhat different conflict resolution