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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Out of curiosity (and possibly to open up a huge can of worms... :twisted: )

SAHP's...lay out what you do around the house right now and what your other working half does. [/quote]

OP here...the "right now" is the most important part of this question...sorry that might not have been clear. Has the addition of home-schooling changed your day-to-day with your partner? Over a month in and I'm wondering if other families have started experiencing a new normal with the day in/day out. Or is just business as usual?[/quote]

Yes we have a new normal. DH is law firm partner, I SAH. I typically do 90% of housework (including bills, yard work, trash, repairs, etc that often men do) but I outsource what I can (yard people, housekeeper, etc) and I’m certainly in charge of managing the kids time / schoolwork, though he’s equally involved with the kids when he’s home. Now in the pandemic our housekeeper is not coming and the kids are home all day. So DH is doing a lot more childcare and cleaning during the day (like, he’ll do a call while holding the baby and I prep lunch, or clean up lunch while I put a kid down for a nap, etc).

We tried to keep things as they were for the first week or two but it was clearly unsustainable - I was overwhelmed and doing a crappy job supervising homeschooling for my oldest, the baby was crying a lot, etc. He stepped up and I’m appreciative. When there’s more work to go around we both have to share the load. [/quote]

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