Michele Bachmann: The Case For Better Women in Politics

Oh Michelle!

How desperately I pray that the young women in our country start to take an interest in politics at a young age, and grow up to be positive, intelligent, and strong women because we are running low in this department lately.

Politics in our country is business as usual, but it seems like the more women that come into the spotlight, at least on the side of the GOP, the worse the reputation of women in politics becomes.

Raising Boys with Strong Female Role Models

Female Truck Drivers?

I was having a thought-provoking conversation with my almost-four-year-old the other day and we started talking about jobs. Typically firemen come up in our house a lot because my husband is a volunteer and the boys always want to go and play on the firetrucks.  I mean what toddler who has free reign of the firehouse wouldn’t?

Heck, I think sometimes the boys know the trucks better than some of the new guys at the firehouse.

Anyway!  I asked him about being a fireman when he grew up and I brought up female firefighters. He snapped back at me “Mommy, girls can’t be firemen”   and I wanted to keel over and die right then and there….  Who was this little boy, who raised him, and WHO gave him the idea that women wouldn’t be firemen?

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