I keep seeing freds alluding to this.
If the dc are sick, the mother has to take time off work...
When the dc are little babies the mother takes care of them at night..
The mother organises the dc's clubs, school stuff, childcare/babysitters, food etc...
The father, I don't know, sits about looking nice and not worrying his pretty little head about children and all their gubbins.
I don't get it, my DH is far from perfect (he certainly doesn't worry his pretty little head about things like cleaning toilets or umderstanding what constitutes a 'balanced' meal)
But when it comes to DD he does half the work.
When she is sick we takes turns having time off - I don't give a fuck if he earns more than me, he has the same rights to parental leave as me, and she is as much his as mine!
When she was a baby waking at night I fed her, he woke up and got her, he got her nappies/other stuff together and changed her. At weekends we each got (and still get) a lie in.
I have always trusted him (total lie but I pretended I trusted him ) 100% to do anything for her (except bf) that I can.
She is and has always relied on us both the same.
I don't understand this notion that mothers are more important to young children than fathers are.
They should bloody well do half the work (or near as damn it).
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To not understand where the notion that children are 'womens work' comes from?
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Tallalime · 07/10/2013 14:19
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