My Role Of My Family

1066 Words3 Pages

My family consist of my two parents and my two younger sibling. We have lived in the same household for over twenty years. My mother is Carol, my father is Roger, my sister who is sixteen is Marie, my brother who is thirteen is RJ, and then there is me LeAnn who is twenty. My mother has always given the emotional support that is needed. This helps with the job that she has always had as a special education school teacher. My father has always been there financially working as a truck driver, mechanic, and currently as a glass technician. I have supported my younger siblings with emotional support and encouragement to always do their best. While my younger siblings have been carefree and trying to do their best in school and helping each other …show more content…

The see how my dad use to be the hard working one and how my mom was emotionally supportive of us all. They also see how I am the only one that was taught how to work on cars and take care of the lawn, but my sister insist that I was taught how to pay more attention to my appearance because I use to do pageants when I was younger. My brother says that he is into videogames and computer programming. My sister says her appearance is important to her. She wants to come across as someone people can easily get along with and she likes the ways she looks when she does her hair and makeup. My mom says that she was raised to do the housework because that what females do. Normally females on her side of the family staid home and took care of the house, until her mother got a job at Walmart to help pay bill for the four children she was raising with her military husband. From my home, one can learn many things on gender roles and how we break the norm. I was taught that getting your hands dirty was not just for men, and that women needed to know the basics of how to maintain a car. My sister was taught to be a proper lady, and my brother decided to be his own self and not care about appearance or outside work. Our mother still provides and the emotional support, and my father provides the financial

Open Document