My Sister's Home Research

Comparing how families deal with different situations

Ethnography, Essay #3 In my observations 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 were the hopes of noticing habits within a parent who is involved in their 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

This gave me the opportunity to indulge in my surroundings. Sitting on a mini bed that replaced a beige suede couch in the living area, I see bamboo plants, a bible laying on top of a small shelf, and some religious décor threw out the living area. The house is a bit out of date. I saw stained wooded floors, a small flat screen T.V., and the walls were covered with a poor paint job. My mom loves to paint the house. She paints the house approximately twice a year sometime skipping a year. We lived here for about ten years, so one could imagine the number of paint jobs done in our home. We resided here longer than we lived in any other house. Usually we experienced a move about every four

She seems leant regarding her daughter’s desire to get a tattoo. Although my sister didn’t seem pleased to discover the location that Destiny wants her tattoo, she still left the choice up to her. These are similar traits of my mothers parenting skills. Instead of implementing disciplinary acts they look for other ways to make their children’s process in obtaining their goals more difficult. For instance, she would refuse to take her to the tattoo shop and so on. My sister continues to make sure all her children have done their chores. She made a schedule with them that organized and set days for each of them to do a specific chore. My nephew Isaac is very loud through the process of my sister talking to her daughters. He’s very game