| Generation 1: Years children were raised (1950-1970’s)Georgia | Generation 2: (1970’s-1990’s) Georgia & Florida | Generation 3: Years(1990’s-2010’s my generation) Florida | Parenting Practice 1: Education | Parents in my family thought education was more key than anything, and kids faced discipline if they skipped school or did bad | Education was very important like the previous generations but more kids starting to use sports and activities to help pay for school | Education was important, but sports was just as important because it was the only way some of the kids could afford college | Parenting Practice 2: Extracurricular activities | Kids didn’t really play sports, they did hunting and picking tobacco | Kids played a lot of sports and hung with friends | Extracurricular activities were very important and is was very serious especially football, even some of the parent pushed them harder in sports than school | Parenting Practice 3:Relgion Involvement | Kids had to pray and were not allowed to curse | Kids attended church every week and had to use read the bible everyday | Kids rarely attended church | Parenting Practice 4:Discipline | Kids were whooped and did extra chores | Kids were whopped and not allowed outside | Less whooping more taking away of technology, and not allowing them to go outside |

Introduction
The “Miller” family has its great share of similarities and differences within 3 generations. We like to define our generations by at least 20 years. I haven’t really talked to anybody in my family who was born before the 1950’s so I defined within the 1950’s-2010. The 1950’s was my grandparent’s generation, 1970’s was my parents’ generation, and the 1990’s was the start of my generation. The Miller family is mainly based in the states of Georgia and Florida, with the majority residing in the state of Georgia.
Similarities
The Miller families have had some similarities throughout the years. All of the Miller’s valued and took education seriously. In all the generations whooping was a constant presence in all of our lives as a form of discipline. Sports were also a constant within the boys between the 1970’s-2010, with the sport of football being the predominant sport. Also the value of hard work was a constant of our generations, the men and women held jobs and stayed on their jobs for long years. All the generations also eat seafood and love to have old fashioned cook fests.
Differences
The Miller family also has its good share of differences as well. First religion involvement was a major component in the earlier generations, but in my generations religion involvement faded and was not a prominent. People of our earlier generations attended church every Sunday, as the years went on church involvement was not big. Also in my generation taking away technology was more of a discipline of choice than a whooping, which was the main choice of discipline of discipline. The earlier generations was a lot more family oriented than my generation, my generation our family members rarely hung out together, in the earlier generations they was always together and really enjoyed each other’s company.
Cohort effects Cohort effects are the effects that occur when people that are born and raised at a certain time has very similar experiences that make that group stand out among others (Heffner). The study of Cohort effects is a very important part of social science studies research. Cohort effects are study that tries to show strong or a lack of characteristics that is shared within certain periods of time. Cohort effects are often times research when studies change over a certain period of time. Often times are often times triggered by certain events that happen in the world (Atingdui, 2011). In the 1950-1970’s the presence of racial tension may have caused the parent of that generation to do certain practices. 1970-1990’s the emphasis of hard work and opportunity may have influenced the parenting practices. In my generation I think the increased use of technology and even social media may have influenced the parenting styles of my parents of other parents in my generation.

References
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Atingdui,N. (2011). Cohort Effect. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79061-9_617
Heffner,C. All Pysch. http://allpsych.com/dictionary/c/#.VPfd68J0zVJ