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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He goes to work to earn money and that is his job.  You stay home and take care if all household/ child duties and this is your job.   You probably have a cleaning person as well  as a nanny or au pair so why should the person earning the money help you with anything?[/quote]

If the kids don't see both parents doing chores like cooking and cleaning up after dinner (after work hours for both parents end), then they will grow up thinking their future spouse will do it all too.  Cooking, taking out the trash, loading the dishwasher - that's part of living in a family and it's healthy for the kids to see both spouses stepping up, not just the SAH parent.  Yes, the work day has ended, but that type of work in the home continues until bedtime and has to be done.

I think it's important for the kids to help out too as they get older, especially if they want to earn privileges and allowance.  [/quote]

Yeah that PP must be a troll. Even my Asian grandparents living in Asia with very very traditional gender roles (uneducated middle school drop out grandma, highly educated /working grandpa) don’t live like that. Grandfather does some cleaning, disciplined and engaged with the kids, and even in his 90s now makes lunch for the two of them and cleans the kitchen. [/quote]

Yes, seems like a troll. 
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