You want me to do what?!?
And the gender stereotypes continue. Tomorrow will mark my first ever baby-sitting adventure. It’s not going to be major - I will arrive while the helper is there, get settled and then be alone with my adorable god-daughter for over an hour till her mother makes it home. No big, right? The most I may have to do is change a diaper.
I commented to a friend that it would be my first diaper-changing experience and his response: “here I am thinking this is something all females have already done”. Ahh, boy. Yes, we do still live in a world where girls are expected to play with dolls while boys play with cars. But we also live in a world with stay-at-home dads (still rare I know) and truck-driving mothers.
Somehow I seem to have escaped this girly ritual of changing diapers on my dolls, and baking in my EZ Bake Oven. I guess I was too busy reading books and climbing trees. Maybe I never really understood what men and women were “supposed” to do. I had a father who loved to cook and to fix cars and a mother who could repair a toilet or mend a torn hem.
I always figured people just learnt to do things as they needed to do them. I can’t do much of anything on a car, largely because I figure there are people I can get to do it. However, I do know how to change a tyre by myself and have successfully installed a car radio. Lord knows, I stay away from cooking, but I bake a mean brownie and a delicious omelette. 
In my mind we should have reached a point where the “roles” are blurry because men and women do the things that are necessary without worrying too much about the man’s job or the woman’s place.
Right now I am feeling kindaamused and
hungry...
