Dad as Mom’s Helper
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- July
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Do you let your husband do enough around the house? Or are you controlling and do too much because you don’t think he’ll do as good a job as you? So many fathers I hear from tell me “Nothing I do is ever right.” Many women simply believe that because they are female, they know best. This criticism tends to leave Dad to taking a back seat when it comes to parenting. Then Mom feels the extra burden and dare I say resentment?
In my house, we try to keep our parenting and household duties as equal as possible. My husband cooks and yes, cleans (though I tend to spot the stray dog hairs while he seems to never see them!), though I tend to be the one who chauffeurs our girls to most places (though he does the later shift now that our teenage daughter goes to bed after me). It works…until of course, it doesn’t. Marriage is a ying and yang and parenting is a challenge—no matter your child’s age. Though of course since we ARE the women, and this is my blog, I’m allowed to complain! (Plus: we women have hormones and cycles men don’t have..which makes us more tired and cranky.)
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on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 at 2:56 pm by Jeanne Muchnick.
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Those same cycles allow us to complain too because we have to deal with you when you are going through it.
And the fact that every man hasnt up and left his wife during this time leaves a lot to be said for us good men. so you know what give us credit where credit is due.
I am still waiting for the Man/Dad only blog. :-p