Interviews!!

So I actually ended up contacting two people for possible interviews.  Each responded in the same day and I plan to e-mail one and call the other this week!  My interview via e-mail is with Nicole Wise, the co-author of a book that I am using in my research.  The other is Lenore Skenazy, a New Trier grad.  She writes a blog called Free Range Kids and also has a book with that same title.  She is also a mother who raises her child as an anti-hyper parent. 

I am really excited to talk to both of theses women, and I am really surprised that they responded to me so quickly!  I'm also a little nervous, I still need to plan out my interview questions and I'm not really sure what to ask yet!

Junior Theme Research and Interview

As I continue my research, I am finding lots of really great articles focused on over-scheduled children in relation to college admittance and resume building, but I am really having a difficult time finding more information, other than resume building, as to why parents schedule their children so heavily. My research is producing the same types of articles and I need to find a way to create more variation in my research.

I am also working on contacting people for possible interviews.  So far, I found an author named Nicole Wise who co wrote a book I am looking at and who has written many articles for various newspapers concerning parenting and family issues.  Other than that, I am still not really sure who would be good to contact.

Junior Theme

Over the past week my class has spent in the library, I have finally managed to narrow down my topic for this year's junior theme paper.  My original topic was parenting styles and how they have changed over time in America.  After some basic research about different types of parenting styles, I was able to narrow down the broad topics of parenting to my final "why" question. 

Why do parents feel that they must control and micromanage every aspect of their childrens' lives?

There are a lot of articles out there about this topic, but I'm having trouble deciding which ones are 'scholoarly" enough to be used as research in my paper.