A question for all parents

[kitzen_kat]

Poll Division of Labour

If you could change something, what would you like to change?

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Tilley

Comments

[perpetua_redux]

My husband would usually do about anything I asked him to, but he didn't take responsibility for doing anything, and it made me crazy.

[sandypawozbun]

As you probably know from my posts Usagi is a stay at home dad with a back injury. We have a kid staying with us who is sort of a nanny to help out. We share night time routines and play, but he usually takes care of everything else. I don't brag about it too much though because I know there are DHs out there who do very little indeed.

[aelfie]

He does a LOT. He would do more if he were around more (long days at work and the kids go to be within an hour of him coming home from work)

[mrs_g]

I'm blessed. My husband is a stay at home dad and really picks up the slack on everything even when I am home!

[not_hothead_yet]

he has a tendancy to SAY he's going to do stuff, then "forget" to do it then spew a ton of "I'm sorry!"s that generally show that he's angry at being caught out rather than actually sorry.

I'm a SAHM so I don't expect very much from him: 30-60mins when he gets home of INTERACTING with baby so I can finish making dinner and have a lil bit of breathing time. Night-time diaper and jammie change (this takes about 5mins). Put her to bed (as in take her from me doing the night-time rituals and actually physically put her in bed because if I put her in she won't stay in bed. this takes all of 5mins for him to do)

She's two and these are the ONLY things I've asked of him on any regular basis. Our fighting usually hinges on the fact that he "forgot" again. Our last fight had me yelling "she's TWO it's not like these are suddenly new things we are doing here"
I don't buy the "i forgot" excuse.