National Adult Literacy Database

January 29, 2007

Joanne lives in Winnipeg, MB. She goes to school at Faith Adult Education Centre. She is attending The Salvation Army STEP Program’s Summer Class.

Living with My Kids

by Joanne Brown

My kids and I are very close. My kids tell me all about what their friends do when they leave the house with them. When the go to a party, they phone me and ask if they can come home because they don’t drink and they don’t smoke. I tell them to come home and we can rent movie, or we can go for a swim at Pan Am pool.

We are going camping till Sunday night because I go to school on Monday. My kids do the dishes and make the beds, and do the laundry. My kids know that I do the cooking and the dinner dishes. My kids don’t get any money because we do things different. We go to the store and buy a movie, and then to Dollarama and we buy things for the house or the yard. Then we go for long walks to talk about school. We do a lot of things like a family and sometimes we do nothing at all.

I went home yesterday, and my kids made me supper and they did the dishes. They took the dog out for me and they got a movie. They like to watch Christian movies. We made popcorn and ice-tea. They like the movie they watch it all the time.

Yesterday we went to Foody Goody because it was my son’s birthday and he is 14 years old. He got a DVD player and a TV for his birthday. My family is in from Calgary and Vancouver. We had a food fight and the kids had a water fight.