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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fully respect the concept of the mental load - it is real.

What bothers me about most mental load conversations is it often sounds like working moms reinventing the wheel. We actually had a time where women stayed home and it was understood that what they were doing was important and time consuming. Then in the 70s-90s it was decided that women at home were doing nothing/"baking cookies and having teas." NOW working moms have "discovered" everyting involved with taking care of kids and household and have to tell everyone about it.[/quote]

Mental load in the pre-70’s? You think parents parenting was the same back then?

You think men being involved in their child’s lives is a bad direction?[/quote]

As a child of the 70-80s, my mom and her friends didn’t do half the things expected of moms today. My dad was really involved for the era but he had kids late in life (41) and desperately wanted us. But my mom was the mother from Arrest Development. She probably couldn’t name a single teacher or class I was in while I was in middle school or high school. She just expected As anything less would doom me to a life of prostitution (my parents literally told me that!). She wouldn’t have done fund raisers or drive me places. Play on the floor with me?! Go to Gymboree?! No way. Motherhood is now competitive.[/quote]

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