“The Role of Families in Cultivating Children’s Personality Values: An Analysis of Social Psychology Education,” is a study written by Suko Susilo, which explains how our family forms who we will become. Susilo, talks about our family lives ultimately affect how we socialize with others, how we learn right from wrong, and create our identities.

Forming of Identity:
One way people begin to start forming our identities and they want to be is based off the way we are treated by our families. Susilo goes to explain, “good and bad values from family relationships play a central role in shaping individual wellbeing throughout life.” For example, an individual who had grown up in a loving caring environment, is most likely to become a caring and loving person who wants to provide an environment just like what they had to others as well. While, on the other hand, an individual who had grown up in a home where there was not much of support or love, might grow to be more reserved and not good at showing care for other.

In “The Inheritance Games,” we see Grayson Hawthorne’s family having very high expectations for him and who he would become growing up. From all that pressure from his family he becomes a person with high standards for others and an uptight individual who needs every to be to the highest standard .

Learning Right from Wrong:
Growing up, kids are modeled behaviors that are considered good and bad. The understanding of these ideas teach them what behaviors to do and not do, so they stay out of trouble. Susilo says, “Values can be defined as broad preferences for an appropriate action or outcome. Values therefore reflect a person’s feelings about right and wrong.” Without a consistent parental figure to help show consistent values in life, the lines of right and wrong can become blurred which can lead to a harder life for a child.

In the novel, the Hawthorne brothers didn’t have a positive parental figure to teach the correct values in life. Instead they grew up to believe that because they have money they can decide what is good and bad.

Building Social Skills:
In life, one of the most important things you’ll need to do even the simplest tasks are social skills. Social skills, help for you to communicate with others, and to form and maintain relationships with others. Susilo comments on this idea by mentioning, “relationship between family members is very important at every stage of life, and for younger family members, these relationships are an important foundation for forming social relationships throughout their lives.” At a young age, we start to understand social skills from the ways our families treat us and others. If we get the opportunity to learn these we will end up having a even harder time communicating with others.

In “The Inheritance Games,” we see an absence of good social skills in the Grayson and Jameson Hawthorn. Even after multiple years after a fight the two don’t know how to approach each other and reconcile without creating more issues.

Conclusion:
It is so important to have a relationship with our family because we help each other to become the best version of ourselves. Sadly, when kids like the Hawthorn brothers in “The Inheritance Games,” grow up in a disconnected family situation, they are impacted negatively. There are no perfect families though, so no matter what one’s family is like, each person should try to become them best version of themselves. All should also work to treat our family members with respect, to try to make a positive impact in there lives.