Alexandra has a two year old child.
Both of Alexandra’s parents expected her to graduate from university.
Her father has a university degree and her mother has a Ph.D. and currently
works as a professor. Alexandra recalled both her parents modeling writing although
she saw “mostly mom doing taxes, bills and writing letters.”
Reading
was important to her family. She saw her father reading the newspaper every
day and her family “had a library in our home. My parents were always
reading to us and we’d read to them. They ordered lots of books and magazines.
Reading was a big part of our growing up.”
Her parents watched Walt Disney on Sundays. She did not recall them singing
or rhyming with her. Alexandra’s family “went to church every Sunday
and Tuesday and Wednesday for other studies. I heard singing in church and reading
along with the hymnal.”
She remembered having a public library card but
she used her school’s library more than the public library. Her parents
sat down to do homework with her and read to her every night. Once a month,
the family would go on outings like “snowshoeing, swimming, recreational
things, the zoo. Not so much cultural.”
Alexandra works as a laborer. She completed high school and did one year of college in registered nursing. She has taken on the job training and has done forklift driver training as well as lots of safety meetings and courses. She watches about one hour of television a day and prefers to watch drama. She does not use the internet.
Alexandra expects her daughter to get a university degree. Alexandra did not report modeling writing a great deal although she does bills and taxes. Alexandra reads to her daughter more than once a day and sings nursery rhymes to her. They also do a lot of coloring together. Alexandra’s daughter does not see her parents watching television. She has a lot of books and watches preschool programming for five to six hours a week. She does not use the internet.
Alexandra has taken her daughter to the museum, Art Gallery and TELUS World
of Science. The family goes on outings twice a month. Alexandra is “passing
on what I’ve learned from my parents but I’m trying to stay at my
daughter’s age level. My parents pushed a higher level of difficulty onto
me and it was difficult.”