Eve Rodsky
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That's What Frenemies Are For is incredibly well written and so fun to read and yet there is a deeper meaning too...the undercurrent of the "counting and competing" culture and its by products including the effects on a woman's identity after kids. I
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“We expect women to work like they don’t have children and raise children as if they don’t work.”
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
“Self-help author Brianna Wiest suggests: “True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake; it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.”
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
“Having to remind your partner to do something doesn’t take that something off your list. It adds to it. And what’s more, reminding is often unfairly characterized as nagging. (Almost every man interviewed in connection with this project said nagging is what they hate most about being married, but they also admit that they wait for their wives to tell them what to do at home.) It’s not a partnership if only one of you is running the show, which means making the important distinction between delegating tasks and handing off ownership of a task. Ownership belongs to the person who first off remembers to plan, then plans, and then follows through on every aspect of executing the plan and completing the task without reminders. A survey conducted by Bright Horizons—an on-site corporate childcare provider—found that 86 percent of working mothers say they handle the majority of family and household responsibilities, “not just making appointments, but also driving to them and mentally calendaring who needs to be where, and when.” In order to save us from big-time burnout, we need our partners to be more than helpers who carry out instructions that we’ve taken time and energy to think through (and then who blame us when things fall through the cracks). We need our partners to take the lead by consistently picking up a task, or “card”—week after week—and completely taking it off our mental to-do list by doing every aspect of what the card requires. Otherwise we still worry about whether the task is being done as we would do it, or done fully, or done at all—which leaves us still shouldering the mental and emotional load for the “help” or the “favor” we had to ask for. But how do we get our partners to take that initiative and own every aspect of a household or childcare responsibility without being (nudge, nudge) told what to do? Or, to simply figure it out?”
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
― Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
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