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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of this could be managed by having discussions. A family meeting once a week with EVERYONE about what’s coming up and what needs to happen shows not just the lagging spouse, but also the children, what is on the family plate. Communication and giving people ownership over some things will help everyone grow. A friend of mine was aghast when I had my kids start their own laundry at a young age. It wasn’t pretty at first, but now they’re fully capable. My dh is in charge of abc and I’m in charge of xyz. Someone may ask me about a school thing that dh takes care of and I don’t know the answer because he knows. It took awhile to get to this place because I used to work very part time so I naturally took up a lot of the household tasks, but now I work as many hours as he does so we divide and conquer.

Maybe he doesn’t care about holiday sweaters etc, but what DOES he care about that he can take off your plate? Mine cares about sports so he’s in charge of signing everyone up and putting practices in the calendars and communicating with coaches. I do none of that now. But I do a lot things he doesn’t.

And my kids have had age appropriate responsibilities this whole time. They whine sometimes :) but they are proud that they can do their own laundry and cook a dinner for the family etc. [/quote]

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