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About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons incl...
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About this blog: I'm a wife, stay-at-home mom, home cook, marathon runner, and PhD. I recently moved to the Silicon Valley after completing my PhD in Social Psychology and becoming a mother one month apart. Before that, I ran seven marathons including Chicago and Boston. Exercise is an integral part of my life. I hope to one day go back to long distance running and tackle the New York City Marathon. Right now I run after my one year old son. Although I am a stay-at-home mom, we are rarely "at home." My mom also stayed at home with my brother and me. She warned me that, although rewarding, it can be isolating. So, with her help, I learned the importance of getting out into the community and meeting other mothers. On the rare occasion when I am at home and have a hand or two free, I squeeze in time to scrapbook. As a new mom, many challenges are thrown my way. I hope my opinions, triumphs, and struggles help experienced parents reminisce, new parents cope, and parents-to-be get an honest glimpse of what the first years of motherhood can entail.
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New Lego stay-at-home dad and working mom figurines
Uploaded: Feb 29, 2016
A few months ago, while visiting my parents, our son had a great time playing with my brother's old Legos. While I'm sure most, if not all, of the pieces came from some sort of set, my parents had all of them stored in two bins. Our son had lots of fun dumping and sorting through all the random pieces to build all kinds of creative vehicles.
When I recently saw that Lego launched
a new set with a stay-at-home dad and a working mom, I was intrigued. I think the causally dressed dad pushing a stroller and work-attired mom could
help kids be more creative in their play. Whether they choose to pretend the dad is a stay-at-home dad, a retired dad, a dad taking the day off of work, a dad spending time with family on the weekend, or anything else that they can imagine. It's always exciting when kids are given extra tools to be more creative in their play.
I'm also guessing most kids will, at some point, end up dumping these two figurines in with all the rest of their Legos. And most likely, these parents would both also become race car drivers, astronauts, zoo keepers, explorers, aliens, super heroes and anything else that comes to the child's mind, regardless of the figurines' clothes and hairstyles. Because that is also what makes Lego so great.
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