Sibling And Gender Stereotypes

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1. Fighting between siblings helps to, “teach social skills.” This happens because the siblings spend so much time together and fight all the time; with this the children learn problem solving and cooping mechanisms to deal with many common social interactions. Example, “boss relies on his peacemaking skills”
2. Previous research has found that the order of birth leads to, “Older sibs are strivers; younger ones, revels; middle kids, lost souls.”
3. Sibling relationships are powerful teaching tools for social sills because they allow the siblings to experience many social problems and social solutions in their constant fighting. An example from the article researchers put siblings together in a room and gave them three toys to choose from, they were only allowed to play with one at a time and if they wanted to switch toys they both had to agree on the next toy before they could switch, “Almost universally, the kids who …show more content…

Younger siblings tend to learn behaviour from their older siblings this includes bad behaviour. It is true that de-identification helps some closer in age siblings break the mold from their siblings bad behaviour, however this is less true when it comes to siblings farther apart in age and leads the younger sibling to follow in the habits of the older sibling developing any number of bad traits the older sibling may have such as a, drinking problem or smoking problem.
9. De-identification in opposite sex siblings helps accentuate gender stereotypes in both siblings. This in the future helps both siblings in their interactions with members of the opposite sex.
10. Not all types of siblings (stepsibs, halfsibs) have the same powerful learning relationships. Those families which blend well together can albeit less often, create relationships between the siblings that have ties as strong as related siblings. The learning relationship tends to develop stronger in related siblings because, “the more genes you share, the more deeply invested you

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