In my report, I looked at differences and similarities between my mom, daughter, and my generations. I look at the differences in parenting practices for education, punishment, breastfeeding, and religion. In my paper, I also explain how cohort effects might have influenced the parenting practices of each generation. Then I will look at contextual factors and how they may have influenced the parenting practices of each generation. Finally, I will explain why it is important to understand contextual factors, including cohort effects, when researching the differences in parenting practices. In all three of my generations you had to go to school, if you didn’t truant officers would come to your home to check on you and parents would get into trouble if you were not sick. The difference is in my mom’s generation she used typewriters not computers, she wore uniforms, and went to a Catholic school. Her parents viewed school as being very important. In my generation school was viewed as very important. We used typewriters, computers were introduced later on. I went to a public school. In my daughter’s school, it is public school, they hand out Chromebook for them to do their homework on. For her, I view education as being very important. For punishment, my grandparent’s didn’t believe in hitting instead they made my mom sit in the corner, do an extra chore, or write sentences. In mine, even though it was legal it was barely used. I only got spanked once, but I had to write sentences. For my daughter spanking is illegal. Sometimes she does need it though. She does get grounded though. For breastfeeding, my mother and I were taught to keep things private and to respect our bodies, I tried to teach that to my daughter I think she gets it but it’s hard saying because she sees other people doing it in public and personally I don’t like it. Religion really changed, my mom