¶ … infant (birth-12 months old).
The observation is of Julie, the child of a friend who is 6 months old. Her parents are Jewish, the father is a Rabbi in the local Temple, the mother works as a physical therapist. The parents combine American and Jewish values in raising the child, and in comparison to any particular American child of her age, I do not expect to see nor do not see any particular cultural differences emerge as yet.
The family may be described as lower to middle class; it is difficult to make distinctions. They do have a large family -- ten children, with both parents involved in parenting and maintenance of the household. It is a warm, cohesive family with both sets of grandparents living close by and with close family and communal ties.
The observation was conducted last week and occurred during the duration of one and a half hours (2.00pm-3.30pm).
Notes
Julie is in the center of the living room sprawled on a lilac blue crocheted blanket while her mother is reading a book. One of the sisters, as well as the sister's friend, are in the room watching a movie, inoccasionally smiling to Julie and teasing her, but mostly ignoring her. It is the grandmother who came in whilst I was conducting and writing this observation who was according Julie the most attention primarily oohing and aahing over her. Frankly, she saw more wonders in her than I have been able to assess and our judgments have verged in correspondence on several minor...
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