This document compares responses from children and grandparents on questions about family life, living situations, and celebrations. It finds that currently, children typically live in homes with fewer family members and rooms compared to grandparents. Both generations traditionally come together for dinner and religious holidays. While children now sometimes celebrate birthdays, grandparents did not mention this practice.

1. Development of School
Curricula: Teacher training for
sustainable development

2. FAMILY LIFE IN THE PAST AND
IN THE PRESENT
(CULTURE OF LIVING)

3. Questionaires
• Questions for children and their peers.
&
Questions for grandparents and their
peers
and
Answers

4. The questions and their answers
1-How many family members live in your
household?
Children:
20 % : 6 people live in our house
16.7 % : 4 people live in our house.
16.7 % : 7 people live in our house.
13.3 % : 5 people live in our house.
6.7 % : 8,9 people live in our house.

5. • Grandparents:
20 % : 6 people live in our house
16.7 % : 7 people live in our house.
10 % : 5 people live in our house.
10 % : 13 people live in our house.
6.7 % : 10,11,12 people live in our
house.

6. • There are differences between two
generations. The numbers of people living
at home are different.Grandparents lived
with 6 or 7 or 13 people. But New
generation’s members are 6 or 4 or 7.
Before years, the number of people living
at home were more than now.

7. 2- How many rooms are there in your
house/home?
Children:
12.6 % : there are 2 rooms .
47.4 % : there are 3 rooms .
33.7 % : there are 4 rooms .
6.3 % : there are 6 rooms.

8. • Grandparents:
9 % : there are 2 rooms .
62.7 % : there are 3 rooms .
11.9 % : there are 4 rooms .
7.5 % : there are 5 rooms.
9 % : there are 6 rooms

9. Many Grandparents 62.7 % lived in a house
with three rooms and a few grandparents
11.9 %lived in a house with 4 rooms.
But Many students 47.4% lived in a house
with three rooms and with 4 rooms 33.7%.
So We understand that now children lived
with 3 or 4 rooms but grandparents lived in a
house with 3 rooms. A few grandparents
lived in a house with 4 rooms.

10. 3- Which are those rooms?
These rooms are sitting room, bedroom
and living room but many grandparents
didn’t have living room(saloon) because
the number of living person were more
than now. They used to this living rooms
as a bedroom or sitting room.

11. 4- How many bedrooms do you have?
Many of the students 98% don’t have any
bedroom for theirselves.
Grandparents 100% didn’t have their own
bedrooms.
Maybe 10 years later 20% people will
have their own bedrooms.

12. 5-How many persons sleep in one
bedroom?
Children don’t have their own bedroom.
So we can’t comment on this questions.
But students sleep in sitting room. In the
sitting room they sleep with their siblings.

13. 6-Do you have a bathroom?
97% children have 1 bathroom,
3% children have 2 bathrooms.
99% grandparents have 1 bathroom,
1% grandparents have 2 bathrooms.

14. 7-How do you maintain personal hygiene?
100% children have bath.
100% grandparents have bath.
100% children wash their hands and face
e.t.c by soap daily.
They don’t use any other personal hygine
pruducts.

15. 8- How many meals do you have a day?
99% Children have 3 meals ,1% have 4
meals.
99% Grandparents have 3 meals, 1%
have 2 meals. Some of them were in town
so they had countryside work , they had to
work hard so they could miss one meal.

16. 9- Which daily meal involves all family
members?
Many children 93% come together at
dinner, 7% come together at breakfast.
Grandparents 99% come together at
dinner, 1% come together at breakfast.
-6 difference comes from; In city life
fathers works and they can return home
late.

17. 10. What are the most often dishes for:
Breakfast: Many students 99% eat cheese,
tomoto,olives,milk…
Grandparents also 99% eat breakfast but add to all
of breakfast ingredient , grandparents drinks soup at
breakfast.
Lunch: Childen and grandparents 100% have lunch.
They eat rice, yogurt,chicken, vegetables,
Dinner: Childen and grandparents 100% have lunch.
They eat rice, yogurt,chicken or meat…,vegetables..

18. 11- Which are the tasks that involve all family
members?
Children 72 % Sunday activities; going out or
spending their time at home.
Children 15 % housework, 13 % they don’t
have tasks that all the family members
involve.
Grandparents 64% farm works, 9% they don’t
have tasks all the family members involve.
27% housework. In time, children don’t work
on farms, they are in the city life and they
pass their time at their home.

19. 12- Do you ever spend time alone in your
house?
Children 54% spend time alone in their
house.46% don’t spend time alone.
Grandparents 47% spend time alone in
their house. 53% don’t spend time
alone. Grandparents don’t have enough
time for themselves.

20. • 13. In what occasions?
Children spend time alone while they
are playing(street kid games) ,playing
games,reading books.And
after they had their homeworks.
Grandparents spend time alone after
they had farm works and many of
grandparents answered that they were
alone just they were sleeping.

21. 1. Describe one family’s celebration.
Most of the students (85% ) described
Religious Festival.
We have 2 Religious Festivals. Festivals
are very important for Muslims. These are E
ul- Fitr (Ramadan Bayram) ; We come
together with our family after fasting during
1 month we celebrate Festival, we eat
sweets.

22. The other one is festival of sacrifices;
we sacrifices victim. According to
Islamic rules, every Muslim who is
wealthy enough must sacrifice a farm
animal for God. The meat from the
animal is then shared – one third saved
for the household, one third shared
between friends and neighbours and
the final third given to the poor.

23. • The other answer that Children and grandparents answered for
this question were sending off Soldier.
Military service is deeply rooted in the Turkish culture, and is
regarded as a sacred duty. Joining to the army is equated with
being an honourable and virtuous person. In rural areas in
particular, men who have not performed their military
obligations are not well regarded, and what they say is not
taken seriously.
The beginning and end of military service, which Turkish
society in general attaches such a great importance, like the
other major landmarks in life, marked with ceremonies. There
are regional differences in the ceremonies for sending
someone off and welcoming him back.

24. • One of the most widespread practices all
over Turkey is for young men who have
received their call-up papers to be invited to
dine by all their friends and relatives in turn.
The young soldier also be entertained with
his family. It is also customary for
entertainment to be laid on during and after
such celebratory meals.

25. • Some of the children and their
grandparents answered as wedding
ceremonies.
Wedding ceremony is very important in
Turkey. The family and their ralatives and
friends come together for the Wedding
ceremony.

26. And A few children answered as ‘Birthday
party’.
They enjoy these kinds of parties.
Children and Grandparents answered like
Bayrams and Soldier Send Off Ceremony.
But Grandparents 100% don’t answer this
question as a Birthday Party.
Birthday party is growing in popularity for
Children.