MEDIA: andrewpridding
Mon 25-Feb-13 23:37:01
Hi there,
I’m Andrew Pridding, currently doing a PhD in Psychology Research at Brunel University.
I am interested in the childcare of different cultures. I intend to visit a hunter-gatherer tribe, called the Hadza, in Tanzania, Africa to observe and record different aspects of their childcare. I am calling this ‘proximal care’ in my research, which means they use baby-slings a lot and co-sleep with their infants. As a contrast, I want to compare this with different types of childcare in the UK.
Areas I’m interested in are:
Methods of carrying/transporting infants
Methods and rates of feeding
Where does the infant sleep?
Childcare philosophy
Would you please consider filling in my questionnaire? It will take 10 to 15 minutes.
The link is here
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/distalproximal
If you do complete it then, at a later date, I will give you a summary of my research findings and a link to my video footage of the Hadza (should you be interested, of course!)
youmaycallmeSSP
Tue 26-Feb-13 12:02:12
Hi, survey completed. The multi-choice question on baby carrying seems to have been confused with the baby sleeping location question. I don't normally carry my baby in a cot!
Best of luck.
I've done it but I think if the focus is how your culture affects the way you parent, then there should be a bit more about that. I answered the question about my ethnicity but there was nowhere to say if your family was from another culture.
Hand-held plastic seat-carrier - do you mean a car seat?
and yes - question 19 is confused -there are ways to transport baby, places for baby to sleep, contraptions for baby just to lie there or rock - some are suitable for multiple purposes.
question 20 - What was your preferred way to carry your child before he/she learned to walk? - do you mean to 'transport' your child - or literally carry on your person?
question 25 -also found a bit confusing. It takes a while to breastfeed an infant - a young one can take up to an hour for a feed. I would feed my newborn every 2-3 hours (of which most of an hour would be taken up feeding)
question 26 - do you mean weaned completely off? A baby still needs milk after it begins weaning (i.e. when it introduced to 'food') and this can take many months
drmummmsy
Tue 26-Feb-13 13:03:06
i agree you need to make more use of the various ways that people identify and describe their culture/ethnicity and this will give you rich data and variables for analysis
good luck with it
MrsSham
Tue 26-Feb-13 13:17:53
Completed on previous thread and as mentioned on that thread I agree with others your survey really needed to proof read as it is not very clear in places and questions are phrased very oddly.
CorruptWalnut
Tue 26-Feb-13 14:17:55
Completed survey. Agree with points made above re: carriers, weaning etc. But also on your final page with the parenting style questions two of your 5 answers are the same "I've heard the name but know little about it" unless I misread.
andrewpridding
Wed 27-Feb-13 15:31:38
Hi there everybody,
thanks so much for responding to the questionnaire and thanks for your comments- they're very helpful.
I have chosen to mostly respond to lynniep's comments because they encompass many of the others. My responses are underlined so as to differentiate.
Hand-held plastic seat-carrier - do you mean a car seat?
I meant a baby carrier, where the baby sits in and it has a handle for you to carry it.
and yes - question 19 is confused -there are ways to transport baby, places for baby to sleep, contraptions for baby just to lie there or rock - some are suitable for multiple purposes.
_This is true. I just wanted a general idea of how much these pieces of equipment are used. I agree that this covers different functions, so perhaps I could have
question 20 - What was your preferred way to carry your child before he/she learned to walk? - do you mean to 'transport' your child - or literally carry on your person?
I meant transport, as in do they use prams, or arms, or slings, for example.
question 25 -also found a bit confusing. It takes a while to breastfeed an infant - a young one can take up to an hour for a feed. I would feed my newborn every 2-3 hours (of which most of an hour would be taken up feeding)
I did not ask a question about feeding duration but it would have been interesting, and perhaps I should have.
question 26 - do you mean weaned completely off? A baby still needs milk after it begins weaning (i.e. when it introduced to 'food') and this can take many months
I meant complete weaning. To be honest I was mostly interested in asking about weaning of those that breastfed, as it's more relevant to my study, but I included a box for bottle feeding too. You're right that I could have made the question clearer.
I meant a baby carrier, where the baby sits in and it has a handle for you to carry it.
That's a car seat here
Marking my place so I can do it when I am on computer
andrewpridding
Mon 04-Mar-13 00:06:45
Thanks a lot for the extra people who have completed my questionnaire.
I need to recruit more mothers to do my questionnaire. Does anyone have any recommendations of what forums I could use? Babycentre and Netmums has been suggested so far.
(P.S. I have now responded to your message Tiny Diamond.)
andrewpridding
Mon 11-Mar-13 16:06:12
I hope you don't mind me bumping this. I am nearly there but just need a few dozen more respondents- then I can do my research!
If anyone can think of any more parents they know that may consider completing the questionnaire then please consider alerting them or forwarding this link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/distalproximal
