Gender Roles in my Family

     I wanted to take time to brag about my little sister for this post! She is one of my best friends and our family would NOT be the same without her. She is the only sister in our family and she holds her role in our family very well:) We all love her so much. There is nothing we wouldn't do for her. Honestly, I absolutely love making her laugh. I know I was successful when she laughs at one of my jokes or one of my "older brother acts of stupidity". 
     My sister, brother and I all were raised with the same goal but also differently in some aspects because my brother and I were the boys and our sister was the girl.  Our parents raised us to love and respect one another. We were raised to become good men and to love and support the women in our lives. My sister was raised to be loving and nurturing. She always will be that way. She has helped me in so many ways when I went through my tough times. She was there to help me sort out my stuff. In different times of our lives we would be able to help each other by offering some different part of our personality in order to help the others. We as brothers and my sister really balanced each other out. We were a good team together. We have each others backs even though we play different positions and are coached appropriately.  
      We all played our "role" in the family. We all had our chores to do. We were all expected to do well in school, we were expected to get a job and become self reliant. My sister always held her ground against us brothers. It was kind of a typical sister rule. She didn't like it when we just waltzed into her room and touched her stuff. She takes lots of pride in the decorations in her room. She also expected us to respect her just for that fact that she was our sister and a lady. That was something our dad had instilled in us boys young. We were to respect our sister and our mom. No exceptions. And while sometimes it got in the way of teasing her or giving her a hard time it really carried through our young adult years. Nothing has changed. We still love and respect her. She is the "sister" of our family. And while we had the same expectations from our parents we obviously went about them different way. Even though that was different in our parents raising a daughter versus sons, the goal was the same. To be self reliant, respectable, to love one another and over all to become respectable members of society.