Explain the contribution of the ritual of going to the library for Raymond’s sen

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Explain the contribution of the ritual of going to the library for Raymond’s sense of autonomy, self-control, and language development.

Case Study: Little Raymond

Raymond and his mother live in the urban high rise. Raymond loves to use the kitchen pots and pans as his instruments. He sings and dances to the rhythms. The neighbors do not appreciate Raymond’s musical interests, so responding to the pounding on the wall, Mom turns on the radio station and take the “instruments.”

On Monday nights after dinner, Mom takes Raymond to the library. The books they select are used throughout the week for bedtime once Raymond is snuggled in bed. Raymond also participates in Monday Story Time giving Mom a chance to select their books for the week.

This Monday night, Mom did not take Raymond to the library. Her new boyfriend came over to visit and watch football on television. He doesn’t like the noise Raymond makes in the kitchen and wants the boy to be quiet. Raymond retreats under the kitchen table with Elmo and has Elmo play instruments and sign to him. Boyfriend belittle Raymond’s behavior and makes fun of his high-pitched Elmo voice imitation. Boyfriend threatens to take Elmo if Raymond is not quiet.

Mom can’t let Raymond outside to play because the neighborhood is unsafe. Not going to the library means fewer books at home and a break in a family ritual.

Raymond, still under the table, tells Elmo: Read book, read book. Raymond fantasizes that Elmo takes him to the library for story time. Later Raymond snuggles Elmo on his lap and pretends to read Elmo a book saying: Elmo no cry, Ray read book.

Explanation / Answer

Enriching himself by reading on a regular basis is a fantastic thing for him to do, and repeated

action of this will surely result in him feeling not only more comfortable with the language and

reading as a whole, but also may translate into desire and want to continue this action in the future

seeing as he views it so positively. When we press reading on children for things like schoolwork

and actions that are forced upon them, they become more of a chore and less desirable, but when

they are ingrained habits that have always seemed enjoyable there is a huge chance that the action

will continue for many years to come. Any ritual also helps young children to learn habits and

scheduling, by repeating the same action every week we learn to not only expect to do this thing,

but find ourselves looking forward toward it. He will develop a sense of autonomy, feeling a sense of

drive to do certain actions, and start to feel as if things are not just random and that he may have

some dictation in the actions that he does. Also this feeling of control is established when repeating

these activities, it would be as if he is n control of this time of the week with his mother, and that he

gets to do these action on these times on Monday. One of the reasons why the breaking of this habit

could have been so shocking to him, because he may have felt like he lost this control, like he had no

control over doing such an action ever again maybe, It is hard to say with such little information.

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