Family Observation Paper

For this assignment I took the opportunity to observe my interesting family. Most years the weeks spent at my grandparents house just Southeast of Wadena consist of yelling, laughing, made up stories, and lots and lots of eating. The days at grandmas usually go something like this we wake up at a dreadful five A.M., where we make the treck to the kitchen to find most of the adults at the table eating, after that we gear up and head to the stand. A few hours pass and we head back into the warm house. This is normally where the day gets interesting, six hours of confined space with relatives will put anyone on edge. As the afternoon rolls on the time to go back on stand appears, battling through the cold finally tell the sun sets is the last part of our hectic day, after this there is nothing left to do with the day besides eat supper and go to bed.

The family brave enough to come along for the two weekends of deer hunting typically consist of my grandparents (obviously we destroy their house), my Uncle, Kevin, my Cousin’s, Skyler and Hailee, Skyler's

to be exact, at the table. Right off the bat I notice the adults are in a much better mood then us kids. They are more awake and they know it, they take this time to pick on us, knowing that we are way too tired to even fight back. At this time in the morning there are definitely groups. The Adults are in one group, and the kids stay in another. The adults use stereotyping in the morning and feel that because we are younger that we stayed up too late, which is not true.This also shows how both groups are in groups, because in both groups we are all similar in age, and share similar interests. The validity effect is also present in the group of kids, because we all have the same feelings about certain things, whereas the group of adults are ready and apt to argue with us, but knowing that all the kids feel the same it is easier to argue