Lindsay’s child is 16 months old.
Lindsay’s parents wanted her to complete high school. Her parents both
had Master’s degrees, her mother’s in education and her father’s
in engineering. Lindsay’s mother would model writing by typing letters
on a typewriter. Lindsay did not remember seeing her father writing because
“he worked in his office.”
Both modeled reading. Her parents
read the newspaper every day and her mother read a book once a month. The family
would watch an hour of television a night. Lindsay remembered her mother singing
at family functions but did not recall seeing her father singing or rhyming.
Her parents would help her with homework if she needed help. Her mother read
to her every night when she was young. Lindsay remembered going to the TELUS
World of Science with her parents once. She “had a library card and went
to the book mobile once every week or two.”
Lindsay is an administrative assistant with a college certificate. She completed some on the job training and took a First Aid course. She watches two hours of television a day—mostly preschool programming because of her son but she also enjoys drama. She uses the internet for half an hour a week, primarily to do banking.
Lindsay expects her son to get a university degree. Her son “loves books.
I read to him as much as I can; at least once a day.”
They have a lot
of books at home. Lindsay’s son sees his parents reading to him but they
do not model writing. They watch one or two hours of preschool cartoons together
a day. He does not use the internet. Lindsay and her husband sing and rhyme
to their son and have taken him to the museum once.