*A prior piece about fathers needing to do more than pick up a dinner plate and the remote control when they return to the wife and kids after work….that is, if he wants to not come back to an empty house.* According to national statistics, I’m an anomaly, but one that’s more common than… Continue reading Get Right, Or Get Left: Parenting Is a Full-Time Job
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Parenting= Perpetual Workload
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/lorrie-irby-jackson/20120727-parenting-deserves-same-credit-as-career-building.ece Before my Fourth of July road trip with my parents to the West Coast, Calvin and I had opposing views about the difficulty of balancing work and child care. He would call during the day and wonder why I responded to “How are y’all doing?” through a perpetual haze of exhaustion and clenched teeth.… Continue reading Parenting= Perpetual Workload