Just curious...SAHP's? What household responsibilities does your other half have?

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is still working out of the home (critical care doc). We have been keeping things the same. Like previous posters, I typically had just the younger kids at home, older kids in school, and a twice a week housekeeper. But, really, with the older kids home, I don't actually do much more cleaning than I did before. The laundry may kill me though. I have five kids and about 15-20 loads of laundry every week. The kids keep getting dirty, changing clothes, getting bathmats dirty, wanting to change sheets more often (?), etc.

You should be doing a lot with the kids and your FIVE kids should be helping with laundry and other stuff. Wealthy people problems.

Thank you for your insight!

[Anonymous]

Our kids aren’t in school yet so homeschooling isn’t an added burden but not being able to go anywhere or see anyone has still put stress on our day to day (or rather day after day after day...) life. So DH is stepping in more during the day to hold a cranky baby, supervise a toddler meal, sometimes make breakfast while he uses the kitchen island as a standing desk etc. General division of chores is the same. Although in the beginning of the quarantine he was doing all grocery/store trips to minimize my exposure since the kids are all over me all day but that got tiresome for both of us so now we trade off on errands.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yard work, wash the cars, will help with other things sometimes, but I do all the shopping, laundry (he will sometimes fold), cleaning. He is doing the homeschooling so I can sleep later so I'm good with doing all the rest as I hate that more than scrubbing our toilet. Mine is working a lot.

Maybe it's just one poster over and over again, but I swear the number of times I have heard a SAHM say her husband does the morning or whatever so she can sleep in really perpetuates the stereotype of SAHMs being lazy.

Not PP and not even sure if I’ve mentioned it on DCUM but my dh does this for me anywhere from once to 3x a week because I do 100% of night wake ups and can count on two hands the nights of full and uninterrupted sleep I’ve had in 4 years. So yeah, if he’s working from home (which was occasional before COVID-19 and constant now) and I can barely function he sticks the kids in front of the tv with some Cheerios while he works in the kitchen and I get another hour of sleep so I can push through the day. I can’t speak for everyone else but my assumption is that in the majority of cases it’s because SAHM didn’t sleep at night—not because she’s lazy.