Meier, "Why can't she Remeber that"

Meghan Haggerty
Talking Points

"Despite their diverse backgrounds, all children bring to school rich linguistic abilites aquired through social interaction in their homes and communities"
This is such a true statement and it really shows you how important it is to interact with your children while they are developing so they have an easy time knowing how to interact with others and especially children their own age.

"From book reading experiences, many children acquire an extensive book-based vocabulary an absorb important cultural lessons about things like gender roles, family relationships, and the nature of friendship"
It is important to read to your children when they are younger and developing because this another way they learn how to interact with others by how the characters in the story interact with each other, some of the story should show postive ways of interacting with each other but also show how not to act with other too. It is teaching them right from wrong and other moral situations by a story that they will enjoy.

"Children who do not have many early book reading experiences learn their cultural lessons through interactions with family and other community members, from oral stories, and from observations of other people's behavior"
Meaning that if the family is not orientated in this way they have other ways of experiencing the culture and interactions they need without being read to every night.


What I made of this from reading the article that it is very important to make sure that your children are informed of not only their culture but of other people's. It is good to read to them about experiences of friendship in other cultures and teach them right from wrong through social interactions and stories. But even if your child does not have the opportunity to have a book read to them every single night it is okay to teach them through interactions in the community and oral stories too, just do the best that you can with your children and make them culturally aware so they are not blind to the realities of the world.