Peer Relationships

Peer relationships allow children to become more social with peers and onto adult, developing healthy peer to peer relationships. When the child is popular amongst peers and can socialize well, it will create a stable and healthy self esteem for the child. Middle age children that socialize les are less popular amongst peers and may develop self esteem issues later on in adulthood. Middle age children do not except peers that have limited social abilities.

Middle age children that are accepted less into peer relationships are mostly vulnerable to bullies. They tend to be more quiet and sensitive or in other cases they may have a distinction or unique trait that is not as popular in their own society or culture. These reasons will make the child vulnerable on top of the fact that they already have a social malfunction with peers.

Children who are more socially interactive, dominate, and have unique traits; their traits usually become part of the culture and trends of its peers. Children that come from stressful homes and malfunctioning families will be more aggressive in peer relationships and are more likely to take on the role of a bully. Successful peer to peer relationships amongst middle age children allow them to exhibit healthy social and communicating skills. They will also begin to learn themselves, their own distinguishing personalities, and where they stand in their culture and society. This happens when they are able to differentiate the personalities of other peers of their culture.

Adolescents are at a time when gender and race issues become more of a trivia. Adolescents begin to learn who to except and who not to. Male adolescents begin to learn what they can do and begin to believe in what the other gender can do or should not do or either be involved in. They begin to argue which races are dominate, which races are right and which are wrong. Vice versa for females that believe they are in a category separate from males, sometimes believing they are the less dominate, believing they are the smartest, or the cleanest.

As for middle age children who don't take sides and can except anyone no matter race or gender into peer groups. They do not build relationships based on prejudice views. Middle age children mostly build relationships on social and cultural appearance. Middle age children take on morals that are geared towards things such as protecting their friends and distinguishing dishonest events. Adolescents begin to notice the implications of right from right reactions and make a selection of which they will take in life. They become to notice the dishonest events took on by their parents. Middle age children adapt to morals learned in school, in society, and transferred amongst peers. Adolescents take on morals of their families and their own cultures.

This paper analyses the theories of changes in middle age children and adolescent