SOCIALIZATION
VISION
EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIALIZATION:
As a society, we understand the importance of creating failsafe environments. Particularly, we recognize the pivotal role of early childhood socialization, serving children aged 3-8, in shaping our future. Not to be misguided by child care or babysitting, early childhood socialization is critical and lays the groundwork for responsible adulthood and should be a shared priority on our political agenda. It provides the underlying framework that shapes our children's development into lifelong learners and law-abiding citizens, setting the stage for their educational journey and growth into informed citizens and future leaders. As such, it's our collective responsibility to ensure significant investment and focus on curriculum-based early childhood education since this directly shapes the future of our democracy.
We collectively acknowledge the often-overlooked role early childhood educational institutions play in adulthood. Offering disciplined learning environments, they foster the development of individual identity and instill discipline and orderly behavior, essential traits for a well-functioning society. In our current socio-political climate, we see these institutions as spaces for intellectual growth and arenas where students learn their societal roles, discover their capacities, and understand their responsibilities as part of a group.
Our children engage with diverse peers and teachers, gaining a moral, intellectual, and social perspective that prepares them for future civic engagements. Thus, the standards of behavior and conduct enforced by these institutions are regulatory, reflecting the norms and rules set by our society's customs, practices, and traditions. Hence, an early childhood education curriculum does more than facilitate learning and self-understanding. It cultivates future citizens who adhere to socially approved values and behaviors, promoting discipline and orderly behavior and ultimately creating a generation of lifelong learners ready to engage in the democratic process. In this light, our shared commitment to empower, support, and implement policies foster this growth.
Advocate and promote early childhood socialization curriculum.
Early childhood socialization is indispensable for self-development and must be a prerequisite to first grade; daycare is not.
Early childhood socialization results in social order. When there is social order, the public is a civil and stable society.
Early childhood socialization helps children to grow and develop physically and mentally. With age, mental and physical development takes place.
Early childhood socialization regulates behavior and develops the child according to approved norms and values. Thus, socialization plays a dominant role in the child's character formation and personality development.
Early childhood socialization helps children acquire and internalize the objects around them and the norms and desired behavior prescribed by their society's customs, practices, culture, and traditions.
Early childhood socialization highlights the new situations that require attention and generates an atmosphere of expectation, hopefulness, and welcome to springing life.
Early childhood socialization involves parents, family, schools, neighborhood, cultural factors, social norms, and societal values as authoritarian forces.
Early childhood socialization involves peers, friends, and associates as egalitarian forces.
Early childhood socialization aims to make the child learn and conform to established norms and behaviors.
Early childhood socialization helps children grow and develop physically and mentally. With age, mental and physical development takes place.
Early childhood socialization regulates behavior and develops the child according to approved norms and values. Thus, socialization plays a dominant role in the child's character formation and personality development.
In the context of early childhood socialization, communication, role identification, behavior, and culture are the basic elements of the child's learning.
During early childhood socialization, cultural learning comprises imitative learning, instructed learning, and collaborative learning.
Certain socialization behaviors learned from an African American sub-culture contribute to the cause and effect of socially controlled policies and incremental budgeting for the criminal justice system.
Lack of socialization can result in behavior perceived as offensive to different cultures.
An absent early childhood socialization curriculum introduces the need for social control, an authoritarian figure of police, and a judge to preside over deviance, behavior that goes against society's norms.
SPORTS SOCIALIZATION
Sports and physical activities had a tremendous impact on my life. The collective socialization process for our children, particularly between the pivotal ages of 3 and 12, lays the foundation for their future development and significantly influences the future of our society. During this critical period, children internalize social norms, values, and behaviors that shape their interactions and relationships throughout their lives. They acquire crucial communication, cooperation, empathy, and problem-solving skills. Through participation in various programs, our children are exposed to activities that foster teamwork, collaboration, and good sportsmanship. As they engage in sports and diverse social activities, they develop essential skills and qualities that prepare them to be team-oriented adults, contributing positively to society. These programs also strive to create an inclusive environment where every child feels safe, respected, and supported, thereby mitigating the negative impact of bullying behavior. By fostering a culture of inclusivity and teamwork, we can collectively combat bullying behaviors and promote positive social interactions among our children. Our ultimate collective goal is to strengthen our society and international relations by nurturing future leaders’ talents with strong teamwork skills, empathy, and social responsibility. Let's leverage sports programs to shape our children into individuals who will excel in their fields, contribute positively to their communities, and become role models for others for the betterment of our shared society.
Youth athletes participating in multiple sports are less likely to get injured or experience burnout. They are also more likely to persist through the struggles needed to become high-level performers in both sports and academics.
A multi-sport background sets up athletes for long-term success by lowering the rates of injuries and making them more adaptable to the demands of elite-level play.
Playing multiple sports improves overall skills and abilities, including comprehensive motor and athletic development. It also allows for longer playing careers, increased ability to transfer sports skills to other sports, heightened motivation, ownership of the sports experience, and enhanced confidence.
Multi-sport participation at a young age fosters more competent and creative players. It promotes better decision-making, pattern recognition, and increased creativity—all qualities that coaches of high-level teams highly value.
It is worth noting that many American college athletes come from a multi-sport background. According to a 2013 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine survey, 88% of college athletes surveyed participated in more than one sport as children.