Interviews finally

So, after two months of trying to coordinated with my two younger siblings and failing miserably to get time for an interview I finally managed to sit down with them. The first thing I noticed is that 11 year-old boys really like voice recorders. 14 year-old girls do not like hearing their own voice it turns out and after hearing herself during a sound test, she made me promise to never let anyone hear it.

Interviewing children posed a whole new set of challenges for interviewing. Especially with my brother, attention span was a serious issue. He could sit still for more than 30 seconds, so I ended up grabbing a football and throwing it back and forth to him the whole time. My sister was able to handle about 15 minutes, but at that point it was obvious that she wanted to be doing something else and her short efficient answers will made the last few questions of that interview rather pointless. Even if the interview aren't as helpful as I would have liked as far as my research goes, I definitely think I learned a lot of things about interviewing children that will come in handy when I continue my research for capstone.