Discovering Role Models on the Prairie

Submitted by: Catherine Makk

My favorite childhood reading memory features Little House on the Prairie. I remember going to the backroom of my Aunt Theresa’s farmhouse. It had a little sitting room that was a small library, and she had all of these old books.

I read all of the Little House on the Prairie series there, and I loved it best in the summer when everyone else was resting in the afternoon and I could read to my heart’s content in the window seat.

The anticipation of the Ingalls family’s next adventure as they moved into the unsettled West was so exciting. With building houses, raising pigs, going to school, frontier life sounded so exciting – much more exciting than being a 5th grader in the suburbs!

It also showed me what an important part of the household girls were, and are, and how much real work women and girls did in those days. These were not just women who sat around and looked pretty; they were active participants in building a household and that was really impactful for me.

 

Name: Catherine Makk
Title: Director of Research and Consumer Insights, Teen Vogue
Hometown: New York, New York

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