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[quote=Anonymous]I picked up my daughter from school once and she was sitting on her teacher’s lap with a hot-hands, shivering. DH had sent her in a rain jacket, and it was in the high 20s in the evening. The teacher told me she needed to wear appropriate clothing. No shit.

Of course I knew that it would get cold that day (this was November) but DH was oblivious to such things. I remember to lay out clothes the night before on days with erratic weather now.

That’s mental load: checking the weather when picking out the kid’s clothes. Is it hard? No. But men in the US haven’t been conditioned to know to do those kinds of things. So the women do them. Even if the man does some of the physical labor, like dropping off the kids, the mom still makes sure the clothes are appropriate and clean. While one example is just that — one — these things add up into a pretty big pile of distracting and annoying stuff moms deal with every day.

Could I just ‘trust’ my husband? Maybe, but the result is likely to be a cold kid and a teacher who talks to ME about correct clothing.[/quote]

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