"I Wanna Be Like Mommy and Daddy"
Beaudin, Andrea L. (2009-03-19)
>>INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us your name and where you work? And then tell us your literacy story?
>>ANDREA BEAUDIN: Okay. My name is Andrea Beaudin and I work at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. My literacy story is actually kind of funny; it is about emulating characteristics. My mother actually took a picture of me at two or three years old wearing footed pajamas, holding a newspaper upside down, because there was something about that process that I wanted to be like mom and dad. 
>>ANDREA BEAUDIN: That was kind of one of my earliest images that I have about literacy, that there is something in there. I actually come from a family that on both sides, both my parents were first generation college students. They really valued reading. My father was a photographer; my mother ran an advertising agency. They loved language, words, and images. I always find that probably my interesting, or funny way of framing, understanding literacy. 
>>INTERVIEWER: So you came to value literacy because they valued literacy. 
>>ANDREA BEAUDIN: Yeah. It was part of the way of seeing the world. That is wasn't just my focus. It was all the other opportunities that were out there that I could learn about by opening up a book. Or even, seeing a movie or watching television or looking at photographs or paintings; all of those types of texts would help me to understand other experiences of the world. 
>>INTERVIEWER: That's lovely. Thank you. 
>>ANDREA BEAUDIN: Thank you. 
>>INTERVIEWER: Okay, now wait a minute. One minute now. Let me stop this. 
>>ANDREA BEAUDIN: Okay.