Walmart's Child Observation

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I went to Walmart on a bright sunny Saturday morning, when I walked in the store, I noticed a woman and her child I then began to secretly follow them as they shopped. As I observed the mother with her Four year old daughter, I noticed that the four year old was very demanding toward her mother about everything. As I walked around the story secretly following the mother and her daughter, I realized that the little girl wanted everything that she saw just like any other typical child. Everything that the little girl wanted she picked up and put it into her mother's shopping cart without asking her. The little girl put at least five food items in her mother's cart while she was not looking. The mother and the child continued to walk through out the store and shop, the mother then went to the children aisle to get the little girl some baby lotion and a …show more content…

This time the mother saw the little girl put the toy in the cart and also heard the noise that the animal made. The mother then noticed everything else that the little girl put into the cart, she then pulled her daughter to the side were no one can see them and said " do not put anything else in this cart do you understand me." The toddler then began to cry and her mother ignored her and continued her shopping. As they continued to shop and as the little girl calmed down from the crying, she found a box with a doll house and 1 doll inside of it, she then asked her mother can she buy it for her. The mother told her anytime she wants something out of the store no matter if she think she is going to be told no or not that she is supposed to ask for it first before putting it in the cart. The mother then told the little that she can only have one thing out of everything she put in the cart, the little girl picked the doll house with the baby doll inside as her choice. After the little girl choose which item she wanted, the mother took everything else that the little put in the cart out and put it back in its correct

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