When it comes to raising children we’ve all either heard of or have had personal experiences with ‘grandma’s’ way of doing things; the old-fashioned way. Like for instance, when I had my first child, rather than having her on an eating schedule (every 8 hours) like the doctor prescribed, my grandmother thought that every time my baby cried she was hungry and she demanded that I feed her; saying the doctors didn’t know what the heck they were talking about. Claiming that she should be porky and healthy rather than skinny and hungry; which she was. She grew to be the chunkiest little cutest lil baby you ever saw. However; there was nothing scientific to my grandmothers’ approach; hmm, other than having raised fourteen children of her own,
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2006). At any rate; some of the specific research methods described in the video, “Endless Questions” on the study of happiness are, “Naturalistic observation which tells us nothing about the subject’s thoughts, attitudes or past experience, but is merely objective reporting and lacks information on internal thoughts,” (Beatty, S. 2006). For this reason, naturalistic observation is oftentimes combined with a survey which does in fact add the element of how subjects think, feel and behave according to whatever stimuli is used in a particular study or according to whatever the subject matter may be. Therefore; I believe that with the combination of the survey truth is more than likely …show more content…
As well as learning, what it is that children need during different stages of their lives to grow up healthy and happy. For instance; there is one particular study that I find quite interesting on adolescent parenting in which it was discovered that, “De Lissovoy's (1975) study of child-rearing attitudes of adolescent parents characterized them as "impatient, insensitive, irritable, and prone to use physical punishment with their children" (p. 22). The parents in this study were coping with frustrations which included low income, forced early maturity, and family expectations,” (Anderson, S. L.,
2006). At any rate; some of the specific research methods described in the video, “Endless Questions” on the study of happiness are, “Naturalistic observation which tells us nothing about the subject’s thoughts, attitudes or past experience, but is merely objective reporting and lacks information on internal thoughts,” (Beatty, S. 2006). For this reason, naturalistic observation is oftentimes combined with a survey which does in fact add the element of how subjects think, feel and behave according to whatever stimuli is used in a particular study or according to whatever the subject matter may be. Therefore; I believe that with the combination of the survey truth is more than likely …show more content…
As well as learning, what it is that children need during different stages of their lives to grow up healthy and happy. For instance; there is one particular study that I find quite interesting on adolescent parenting in which it was discovered that, “De Lissovoy's (1975) study of child-rearing attitudes of adolescent parents characterized them as "impatient, insensitive, irritable, and prone to use physical punishment with their children" (p. 22). The parents in this study were coping with frustrations which included low income, forced early maturity, and family expectations,” (Anderson, S. L.,