from: Katelynn
The kids I baby sit for hardly need a babysitter. Their dad works from home and their mom is a stay at home mom, so I rarely ever see a job from them. Over the weekend, I fortunately received a phone call to baby sit for a couple hours while the mom ran out to do errands and the father was out of town on business. It was a nice day out so when I got there I decided to take them out back and play for awhile. Alexia, three, really wanted me to push her on the swing so I agreed to her demands and began to push her on the swing. While I was doing this, she told me I was pushing her wrong. Well to my knowledge, there is only one way to push a child on the swing so I told her to show me how she wanted me to push her. Alexia grabbed one of her baby dolls, and began to push the baby from the front of the swing and said, "Just like mommy does. This is how you're supposed to swing the baby. I'm going to be mommy, and push the baby like she does. " And then she proceeded to carry out this motherly role to the baby doll talking and playing with the doll like it was her own child. This photo is highly supportive of socializing gender. Alexia insisted that I push her the way her mom does and even continued on to say that she wants to be just like her mom and carry out the role of taking care of the baby and maybe even further unconsciously suggesting to be a stay at home mom like her true mother. This makes Alexia seem to fall into that category of thinking that this is her duty or assigned job for the future to take care of the babies. This assignment was a true eye opener to the reality of how much not society, but right at home, adolescents parents and leading role models, play such an important part on children and how their lives begin to be shaped into these "roles" that they think they must follow at such a young age.
2 comments:
I believe the artist took the picture from the side top view to show that the little girl is powerless and weak. This is the way society normally views females. Her face is not exposed, so that the focus of the picture is her action of placing the little baby doll into the swing. She also says that she is “just like mom”, this picture shows gender socialization in two ways, by her actions of playing with a baby doll which is normally I little girls toy. Also she is showing that her mother is the care taker of the children in the family system, which is the normal role of the mother.
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