Our group has completed our planned fun night over a month ago at Madison Elementary on October 10th which took place from 6:30 till 8:00. We all participated in different activities during the fun night with the diverse groups of children present. We interacted with these children by participating in the many activities that we had planned.

Since our project we feel that we are better able to understand why kids act they way they do. Since our interaction with children and their parents at Madison Elementary we find through watching other kids we can get some sort of grasp on how they might have been raised. We are better able to estimate the upbringing of children from viewing their interactions with other kids and their parents.

If parents aren’t there to reach to their children and do activities with them and just allow them to watch TV all the time then they will model themselves after the media they have been exposed to. Mass media affects children in many ways. The word mass implies a large number of recipients of the same message and part of mass media is advertising, marketing and entertainment. Children are affected so greatly by mass media because of the visual and colorful aspects they use to entice the younger population. From our own experiences watching children’s shows and what is aimed at children since we have been young we’ve noticed a drastic change in the way media is aimed and portrayed for children. Even in the past ten or so years the visuals and colors have been much more intense and studies have been done to see what attracts children. Mass media has even gone as far as promoting adult products to children just so kids will beg their parents for the product.

Kids now days are also becoming more technologically savvy at a younger age. As a group we reminisced about the fourth grade days when everyone asked each other if they had a computer at home, now fourth graders don’t even go to school without their cell phones. The use of different media at a younger age by children will consequently effect how children view interpersonal communication in the long run.

In conclusion our overall experience at Madison Elementary has incorporated many ethical concepts and theories throughout this term. It was a fun, interesting and valuable experience interacting with these children and learning a little bit more about how upbringing effect s overall perspective and communicative relationship with others.

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www.childdevelopmentinfo.com
www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopment/