As a child, I would often dress up as my mom. I would take her clothes out the closet and pretend to make dinner for my dolls and care for them like she cared for me. Mead would describe this as my play stage because by imitating adult behavior and roles (Ritzer, 2011, p. 432). In the process of pretending to play mommy, I was able to develop the ability to evaluate myself as a parent and other individuals (Ritzer, 2011, p. 432). When I started to attend school, there was a lot of pressure from my mom to participate in some sort of after-school program. In the neighborhood I live in, many of the children end up selling drugs or stealing and my mom did not want for me. Like many other mothers in my neighborhood, my mom wanted me to basketball.
