What I Looked To Discover
Through interviewing my parents and relatives I found out many things about my own family that I did not know. For my interviews I asked my questions to my mother and all of her four siblings. My mom is the oldest child in her family and is 14 years older than her youngest brother, Todd. My mom (Tammy) is 53, my aunt Shannon is 50, my aunt Erin is 49, and my uncles Drew and Todd are 41 and 39 years old. Needless to say that there is a major age gap between them, and in particular between the girls and the boys. When I initially started talking to them I began asking questions on a variety of different topics. I asked questions about their marriages, having children, parenting styles and other basic things about the family. This is when one particular topic caught my interest. This topic was their individual childhoods. I wanted to see if there was any major differences in the way that my grandparents raised each of them. Each of the siblings had a very unique childhood in the way that they were raised. Thus by asking each of them to describe the others, I gained a unique perspective into what each of them was like as a child and how their parents treated them specifically. I explored each of their stories with the purpose of seeing if there was a difference on the way their parents (my grandparents) raised them based on age, gender, intelligence, or any other unknown factors that may have come into play. Then I took these stories and compare them to the way that they raise their own kids to see the effects that this had on their lives. I will then use this information to connect it to broader sociological perspectives and see where my family lies from sociological standpoint.
