Both these scholarly writers essentially state that girls get female toys and boys get male toys and there is quite the difference between these two toys. I am playing with dolls." Back then, I would never have witnessed any of my boy cousins engaged in doll playing. Likewise, I would never have felt the need to play with the "boy" type" of toys as they never appealed to me. When I was playing "house" with my dolls, I would never want to take on the "father-figure" role. I always insisted on taking on the female roles. Even my image of dressing up is a representation of my femininity. I never recall wanting to act or take on the role of the boy when playing. I always insisted on taking on the strong female role model. In relating this to another concept of males vs. females and their various and distinguishable roles, when I was growing up I was always constantly exposed to various other social variables. Social variables can be defined as ideas of the way you were raised based on culture, language, and diversities. It is evident that I loved the concept of having a baby and being a mother and this can relate to social variables that I was brought up to believe in. This notion of social variables also ties in with a concept in the article Common Assumptions about Childhood by Perry Noodleman and Mavis Reimer "In this world, each child is his or her own person, an individual being whose values and abilities are influenced both by heredity and by environment; an environment that inevitably includes specific and highly variable class positioning, gender expectations and so on" "(Noodleman and Reimer, 90). This statement and the idea of social variables can be related and explained when looking at my photograph as it was based on the diversity I was raised and the environment I lived in really affected me as a child. My mother was a stay at home mother. She was responsible for the female roles of the household such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of me.