Hey everyone! Okay, so this survey is looking out to be a success so far.. I have not administrated it to anyone YET but I have written about 15 questions that will potentially give me some really interesting results among parents of children with all ages. I have printed out surveys and made a list of who I am going to give it to. I will be talking more to my boss about the survey today actually. These questions are thoughtful and personal but they are general questions that would be valid and the parents should not have trouble answering. I will continue to update you on when I administer the survey and what the results are. I will attach the survey soon so you can see and maybe you would like to take it! The questions will interest you and make you really think how television and the media have changed over the years. From when I was young, it has definitely changed. Look at Disney channel, for example. The shows are completely different now. It will bring you to MORE attention to the fact that the media is corrupting children IF the children watch these sorts of shows. The messages could be subtle to being completely outright. What do you think?

Heeeeeey fellow bloggers! I'm getting really excited about this survey I am going to administer. I plan to hand out surveys to the parents of kids I work with at the daycare center. These parents have children from 3-10 years old, male and female. I will also be surveying a few neighbors with older kids so that I can compare the two results. I will find out information about girls and boys behaviors from their parents. I hope to at least get 10 parents from the daycare center and 5 neighbors. I will let you know how many I am recording once I get surveys back (since not all will participate).  My predictions will be that the parents with older kids will be more aware of how the television has affected their children (who are now older). The parents of younger kids might not be so aware because they haven’t seen the change YET…… Here are a few of the questions I am planning to ask:

1. How many children do you have?

2.  How old are your children?

3. Are your children male/female?

4. When you think about all the issues you face as a parent, would you say that inappropriate content in the media is one of your TOP concerns, a big concern but not one of your top concerns, not a big concern, or not a concern at all?

5. Do you monitor what your children watches?

6. Do you have any CONSOLE video game players like X-box or Playstation in your household? 

Hello bloggers! I am very excited to share some of my new ideas with you. I have chosen to research childhood socialization with a survey. I am going to survey parents on how the media has changed over the years and affected their children. Such media will include television shows, advertisements, and the overall “image” and norms their children have been exposed to. I will be handing out surveys to parents in the day care center. I will also go to neighbors and friends and hand the same survey out to them. I think that it would be very beneficial to survey parents with younger kids but also younger kids. I want to see how the result of a parent with younger kids differs from a parent with older kids. Their kids have been exposed to different years of changed television and what the messages are telling us. I definitely grew up with different television compared to the young toddlers now. I honestly think that the television now is portraying a different message to kids. Let’s see what we find… !