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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I SAH with an almost 3 year old. I’d say that the difference in housework from when I was working is that we no longer have to spend our weekends cleaning or doing laundry. I’m able to throw in a load or two in the afternoon when I am home and we are no longer doing marathon sessions every Saturday. We also no longer need to spend every weekend vacuuming because I can do it during the day. But evening chores still happen. Sure, it’s lighter because maybe I’ve already washed and folded a load of towels that day, but we still have the kitchen clean up and there are more items to clean and put away and organize because we have a child. There’s more dishes to put away after I run the dishwasher and there’s of course more laundry. I do all the kid related shopping, household grocery shopping and kid related cleaning and some communal laundry like towels or a shared load of DH and my clothes, but there’s no way I see scrubbing toilets or ironing DH’s shirt as only my job simply because I SAH. If DH stayed at home, I’d feel the same.  I wouldn’t expect him to be scrubbing toilets or ironing my shirts.

I think many people have mistaken ideas of what staying at home looks like with a child who is not an infant. It’s not like my 3 year old is taking naps all day and I can’t just stick him in my carrier and clean the whole house. He is running around and making messes (and helping to clean them up too) and we need to play outside and leave the house to burn off energy and see other people and run errands. We are not sitting around all day staring at each other while I put on some household chores strike. [/quote]

No, I don't have any misconceptions. I have stayed home with children of all ages. I agree re the ironing of the shirts, but I also think the SAHM bandwith increases after the kids go to school -if you are still SAHM, I would expect you to do the vast bulk of the chores. [/quote]

Oh I completely agree with that. If the kids are in school, nothing is keeping you from cleaning the house or doing household things unless you have some special situation specific to you/DH. [/quote]

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