Stay-at-home moms are often misunderstood and rarely ever are covered by the media. For this assignment I chose to visit the children’s section in a popular book-store to try to capture some in-sight into these women and their children’s lives.
The media constantly focuses on celebrity moms and their children, but it is rarely ever at an intimate, caring, motherly moment. These everyday moms should be given more attention because the things they do for their children are nothing less than spectacu
lar.
In the children’s section of the book-store, many people would think that they had, well…books for kids, right? Well, that’s just the beginning of what the store had for children. There were activity books, religion books, sound stories, pre-school books, pop-ups, comics, poetry, history, science and nature books. Those were just for the kids.
The list of books goes on and on, but the most important is the sections where mothers could be their child’s teacher. These sections included reading comprehension and learning books, language arts, flash skills, picture association books, number books, and once again the list goes on.
From just observing the children and their mother’s I began to understand the desire a parent has for their children to learn. It’s not everyday you see a parent take their toddler to a book-store and let them run around looking at things, giving them the opportunity to express themselves at such a young age.
One mother followed her child, who was still in a stroller and barely walking, around the entire section allowing him to wander wherever his eyes took him. He ran over to a book and said “ooooooo,” and his mother said, “Look this is Cookie Monster. He loves cookies. RAAARR RAARRR!” And her son replied, “RAAARR RAAARRR!”
In her one statement, she taught him the character’s name, what he liked, and what kind of noises he made and the child automatically responded to it. It was just amazing to me because I felt like an involved mother, or parent, has the potential to be the initial reason behind their children’s success.
By visiting this particular location, many stories could come from this. For instance there was a small stage set up inside the children’s section, and on the stage were step-by-step juggling books. More than likely, juggling acts are done. A great story could stem from that such as: Do they teach the children? Who does these acts? When do they occur? Do they do story-telling on that stage?, etc. Stories about stay-at-home mothers or home school parents could be done. Even stories about children who begin reading young vs. children who started late would be a great story.
The media constantly focuses on celebrity moms and their children, but it is rarely ever at an intimate, caring, motherly moment. These everyday moms should be given more attention because the things they do for their children are nothing less than spectacu
lar.In the children’s section of the book-store, many people would think that they had, well…books for kids, right? Well, that’s just the beginning of what the store had for children. There were activity books, religion books, sound stories, pre-school books, pop-ups, comics, poetry, history, science and nature books. Those were just for the kids.
The list of books goes on and on, but the most important is the sections where mothers could be their child’s teacher. These sections included reading comprehension and learning books, language arts, flash skills, picture association books, number books, and once again the list goes on.
From just observing the children and their mother’s I began to understand the desire a parent has for their children to learn. It’s not everyday you see a parent take their toddler to a book-store and let them run around looking at things, giving them the opportunity to express themselves at such a young age.
One mother followed her child, who was still in a stroller and barely walking, around the entire section allowing him to wander wherever his eyes took him. He ran over to a book and said “ooooooo,” and his mother said, “Look this is Cookie Monster. He loves cookies. RAAARR RAARRR!” And her son replied, “RAAARR RAAARRR!”
In her one statement, she taught him the character’s name, what he liked, and what kind of noises he made and the child automatically responded to it. It was just amazing to me because I felt like an involved mother, or parent, has the potential to be the initial reason behind their children’s success.
By visiting this particular location, many stories could come from this. For instance there was a small stage set up inside the children’s section, and on the stage were step-by-step juggling books. More than likely, juggling acts are done. A great story could stem from that such as: Do they teach the children? Who does these acts? When do they occur? Do they do story-telling on that stage?, etc. Stories about stay-at-home mothers or home school parents could be done. Even stories about children who begin reading young vs. children who started late would be a great story.
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