I had three children and among the zillions of others things I did for and with my children, apart from supporting them, was fix up their rooms. I tacked colorful stuffed animals on the walls, put up posters of the flavor-of-the-day child favorites, bought bedding to match, had bookshelves stocked up with toys that matched their ages, interests and abilities on that boookshelf, played with them with those toys, and showed them how to put them up when we were done, together.

The first thing that caught my eye from this photo were the bleak bare walls. Those alone speak volumes about this woman’s interest in actually parenting her children.