Thanksgiving: Moms, The Heart of the Family

           Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving!

                           
This year my family celebrated Thanksgiving at my Aunt and Uncle's house; while we enjoyed each others company and stuffed ourselves endlessly. Although everyone else enjoyed this day off, I noticed their was one family in particular who was having a hard time enjoying the holiday many people don't work on.

The mom was a good family friend of ours and she was overwhelmed with taking care of her two young daughters. Her morning started off with cooking a few dishes for our Thanksgiving dinner, making sure the girls get out of bed, dressing them, picking out their clothes, styling both of her daughter's hair, finding matching shoes, and the list goes on. As she was explaining her very busy morning, I couldn't help but wonder what her husband must have been doing. If she had a list of things to do, her husband could have lighten up the work she had to do.

Well, why is it always the mother's job to get the girls ready for the day. I can understand if he might not be good at cooking, but he should be delighted to help his daughters get ready. In this society, there are too many married couples, especially women that are cultured, where they play these gender roles. Women cook, clean and take care of their children; while men work their nine hour shift, come home, and rest.

 Isn't it fair to say that these women work from the morning they wake up until the moment they go to sleep?

I found a video on Vimeo, respecting these mothers because they deserve to be acknowledged as hard workers. I am thankful for all of the moms out their working overtime taking care of their children.

Watch the video below to see this wonderful video of moms working in their "office" (home) and being everything that they are.

Mom's are superhero's who will do anything for their children. Moms are the heart of their family.

Building blocks are for girls too.

Upworthy article

Women are constantly underrepresented in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics occupation than men. According to the 2013 census bureau report, growth in women's share of science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations has slowed since the 1990s.

In this Upworthy article, it was said that fewer than 3 in 10 graduating in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are women. And barely 1 in 10 actual engineers are women.

This great article from Upworthy highlighted an ad targeting to girls. We see the stereotype of girls all the time in ads, especially in toy commercials.  We can all recognize that any object that is coated with the color pink is automatically a girls toy, while blue is for boys. It’s the way society has determine the color of gender.  But, what if there was a toy that utilizes skills from the mind of a young girl, instead, of playing with Barbie in her dream house and having handsome ken to save the day. We see it all the time with Legos and Knex for boys. Yet, we haven’t seen a company that made something similar targeting young girls to invent and build.

Below, I put the 2 minute video for everyone to watch. It encourages young girls to use their creative minds and brings out an unforgettable message to everyone. GoldieBlox is a toy company to inspire young girls to become young inventors and engineer their own playground or another set of pretty much anything. 

Meet Debbie, the CEO of the toy company, GoldieBlox.
Hear her story below if you want to know more about how she came up with this amazing idea.

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How would you respond if this question was thrown at you?

  

Does anybody watch the show Scandal? My roommate talks about this show more than anything and I have been thinking about binge watching this show for awhile now. I watched a clip on Youtube and I just want to say, Lisa Kudrow's guest starring role is powerful. Her strong female character in this show is known as congresswoman running for president and she makes a very strong statement to a sexist question,
"You lack the experience to be president of United States?" - Watch Here!

Her remarkable response is pretty inspirational, in my opinion, because you don't see many strong female characters on television. Additionally, she points out one of her biggest achievements. As the congresswoman served in  the army for seven years; the journalist never acknowledged her as a brave soldier. There are so many of us out there that are involved in a situation where we don't realize gender inequality takes place. It takes a strong woman to put herself out there and speak her mind to say a question like that is offensive. It is unfortunate that we see it all the time.
I think everyone should watch this clip  and maybe it can inspire you to stand up and speak your mind, or maybe even be more cautious of what you say.