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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s that boomers didn’t make their husbands do anything. My mom went on and on about how my dad never changed a diaper. When I had my kids, he quietly learned how to change a diaper and changed my kids if they were wet when he was playing with them (often. He saw them daily). He told me my mom criticized everything he did and didn’t let him.

Millennial men step up. They still might be lacking on emotional labor things like planning holidays or even cleaning a home. But I see mostly men at daycare pickup and drop offs. I was at an elementary school field trip today and it was half dads as chaperones. Men are at the playground en masse on the weekends with their kids.

My dh rarely makes bottles. I EBF at home and on weekends, but pump for daycare. I make all the bottles because I have a way of mixing the milk and I made it all so I remember which bottle was morning milk, etc.  [/quote]

Lol to this comment. Can we just talk about what you did here?

It's boomers fault, but not all boomers -- just women. Women are responsible for deciding what their husbands do.

My dad is actually a competent parent but my mother simply never let him do anything, which is why he didn't.

Millenial men are way better, they do way more. I mean not planning things or cleaning things, but high visibility/low effort things like taking their kids to and from school or standing looking at their phone while their kids play at playgrounds.

I don't let my husband feed our baby or have anything to do with bottles because only I know how to do it and he would just screw it up (twist! you're your mom!).

It's like you looked up a list of every misogynist trope about women and parenting and were trying to score a Yahtzee or something.[/quote]
+1 lol  That's how I read that, too. I was like.. wut?[/quote]

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