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Lily Shia babyfarouj@yahoo.com When Baby was under 6 months old, she used to coo and laugh every morning.   She was her own alarm clock and we woke to the heartwarming sounds of her babble and giggles.    My mornings were so pleasant and my parent friends lauded her good behavior, so I decided to make her a baby model to earn her own diapers.   She was a natural, booking gigs monthly, but after a while she was booking on her ability to follow directions, no longer on her inner glow and carefree nature.   She started to look…wiser and worried. My sister warned me repeatedly that babies hear everything and that her own child recited a lullaby a year later without being prompted.   Everyone knows that children are sponges and we should be wary of our vernacular around the tiny tykes, but what about the tinier tots?   They do not echo our nasty comments immediately, so that we guiltily change our tone.   Instead, they blissfully gaze into our ...

​ In the last fifty years, the duties and expectations of the average woman has changed  exceptionally.  We, as a whole, are not expected to be stay-at-home mothers, carry the ti tle of “housewife” or “homemaker”.  Since the feminist movement to push for equal rights and equal pay  (women still make $.70 to a mann’s $1.00), the flux change has conformed women to be more independent and responsible for their own lives, careers, and futures.   With this change and  charge for the independence, came differences in the domestic roles of men and women.  It has become more of men vs. women, a sort of  competition of the genders .   Although this continues to be a struggle within relationship establishments, a balance must be obtained and maintained to keep the level clear and not one  person  or another left behind  to carry the slack.   ​ The discussion of dating is a hot topic.  No longer called  “courting”, dating i...