A Bit About US!

First things first, I prefer to stay nameless. Living in a small town and the fact that my son is not biologically mine would be the reasons.

So, not only can I look at things through a Mom’s point of view, i also can look at things through the eyes of step parents both male and female. It can be so hard right? It is acceptable to be a mediocre Mom, doing what you can, have to and just plain old what needs to be done. But some people believe that step parents are to go above and beyond for the step child, and not the biological? Whatttt..

I come from a home where my Son is bathed daily, never looks dirty, gets everything he wants, has no hand me downs, and literally runs the house! My daughter has this bold little can do attitude, she had to be born with it. I’ve never met such an independent Baby, and no, i’m not bragging right now. Being the last child to my own parents I to learned young that if you have a very dependent older sibling you have no choice but to learn, learn, learn.

My daughter always looks like shes had a good day, she is always messy, usually has food in her hair, shes a dirt under the nails kind of girl. But now, why are we teaching these children so differently? We are so busy trying to one-up biological Mom that are we teaching our Son that he is to be clean and proper and Daughter that its okay to be messy and have fun?

Now the result would be that we have a three year old that HATES to paint, play in the sand, and be “ucky” and a fifteen month old that eats dirt so often it is a waste of time to say no anymore.

And trust me, I’ll be soon to go onto gender roles in children. How we push it, and aren’t even aware we are doing it.

Input? 🙂