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[quote=Anonymous]Hmmm. He definitely knows when we need something like milk, and where the children's tylenol is. Those are super basic to me and if he didn't know that stuff I'd view it as a huge problem. I mean, he lives here and is a parent -- he should be generally aware of what food is in the fridge and be able to give a feverish child some medication without my assistance. And we don't have a piano-playing child, but he does school pick up twice a week and takes our oldest to one of her activities almost every week unless he is traveling for work, so he definitely knows what is going on in their lives and at school. Probably not to the degree I do, but very involved.

The stuff he doesn't know is more like: where the spray I use to clean up carpet messes is, or that one kid has to have strawberries in her lunch or she won't eat any of it, or what size shoes anyone is wearing. Stuff that it's hard to keep up with and that you might not know unless you are the one doing it every day. The cleaning stuff, in particular, is all me. He has no idea how to clean the house. He knows where the vacuum is, but can't think of a time he's ever used it. He will clean a bathroom on the weekend now and again, but only if I ask him explicitly, and I usually have to get out the stuff for him because he doesn't really know what to use otherwise. And it will take him 4x longer than it would take me. But I'm one of those weirdos who likes cleaning so this doesn't bother me much.[/quote]

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