Allison is a self-taught photographer. She completed one year of Fashion Design at a college. She and completed a year and a half of bible college. She taught herself Photo Shop and “computer stuff” but has not completed workshops or courses. She watches five hours of television a week (mostly drama) and uses the internet for one hour a day primarily for product research for photography. She also looks at other photographers’ websites and emails.

Allison wants her children to complete high school and “post secondary with the possibility of something further.” She said, “We read a lot; 15 minutes a day. We color too.” Her three year old is in preschool and is learning numbers and the alphabet. He “is starting to write his name and do letters.”

She models reading for her three year old. He sees her reading to him and reading magazines, on the internet and “every once in a while” in a book. He also sees her cooking with recipes from a cookbook. He also listens to her singing—they sing together when she is driving.

Her son has a lot of books at home to read. He watches preschool programming for half an hour a day and does not use the internet. Allison and her children go to the museum and TELUS World of Science once or twice a year.