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    How to Share Parenting Duties | Marriage Advice for Working Moms

    Weaponized Incompetence: When It’s Easier to Do It Yourself

    ByKat Hours Sep 14, 2021May 5, 2022
    Comments 27 Comments

    With household/parental tasks, do you ever think, “If I want it done right, I’ll just do it myself”? Welcome to the concept of weaponized incompetence…

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    How to Share Parenting Duties | Parenting

    Dads, Babysitting, and Hobbies: How Mothers and Fathers Are Treated Differently

    ByKate Antoniades Hours Oct 24, 2019May 5, 2022
    Comments 17 Comments

    How do you feel that the parenting roles of moms and dads are viewed differently? How has this come to bear in your own family? Do you ever feel like the bar for “dad of the year” is much lower than it is for “basically good mom”?

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    When Your Husband Works So Late That He Never Sees Your Kids

    ByKate Antoniades Hours Sep 19, 2019Sep 24, 2020
    Comments 42 Comments

    Does your partner consistently work late and rarely see your kids on weekdays? How do you deal with it? Readers had a great conversation about this recently, so we thought we’d pull it out for a larger discussion..

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    How to Share Parenting Duties

    I Tried to Use Virtual Assistants to Delegate Family Tasks — Here’s What Happened

    ByKat Hours Jul 17, 2018Feb 26, 2025
    Comments 19 Comments

    We often recommend that working moms delegate family tasks to other people (and we’ve talked about it in the context of the “do, delegate, or NOPE” game), so earlier this year I decided to buy 20 hours at TaskBullet (the minimum amount you’re required to buy) to see if it would be possible to delegate family…

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    How to Share Parenting Duties

    How to Share Emotional Labor as Parents (AKA, How to Get Your Partner To Care About the Little Stuff That Keeps You Up At Night)

    ByKate Antoniades Hours Jan 11, 2017Sep 10, 2021
    Comments 34 Comments

    Are you always the parent who makes sure the kids’ homework is done every night? Schedules/attends/follows up on all the kids’ doctor’s appointments? Referees the sibling rivalries? Buys holiday gifts for teachers? We’ve talked before about being the default parent, sharing parenting duties with your husband, as well as mommying your husband, but we thought we’d have a discussion focused…

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