Compare How Families Deal With Different Situations

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Comparing how families deal with different situations
Ethnography, Essay #3 For my observation I decided to visit my sister’s house and compare it to the household I live in. The reason for my decision was to compare parenting between teens living with their parents and adults living with their parents. Most appealing to me within my choice was the hopes of picking up on habits within a parent who is involved in his career as an officer verses parenting habits within single mothers or those who weren’t fully prepared to raise children at the time they conceived them. During my observation I noticed there were a few specifics that I didn’t fully attend to when considering my subgroup. Some of those important specifics includes that one of my brothers is physically disabled and the other involves the absence of one parent within the household I live in. Consolingly, this task allowed me to identify the differences within families and the impact it can have on parenting. Further, it allowed me to grasp the full efforts that take place during nurturing and educating a child. The first day of my observation I discovered many things. Day one of my observation began at my house. The place was silent, most of the lights were off except for the living room light. The light used was warm yellow, so it gave a dim warm home feeling …show more content…

I guess my mother didn’t want to be interrupted from listening to her music because before I could even get a word out she answered with aggravation and assumed I was going to ask her when will my brother Anthony come back down stairs, so I can finish my paper. My brother comes back downstairs for about a minute after being asked to and then goes back upstairs to drink his

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