The Division of Labour

While parenting is a sport, the best parents don't keep score. Rather than try to keep track of every household chore or baby-care duty and divvy them up exactly fifty-fifty, talk to your wife about ways your roles can balance each other out.  

Whether your family follows more traditional roles or not, you and your wife each bring different assets to parenting. Rather than duplicate your wife's efforts, complement them. I take our kids to the pictures, parties, museums, skiing, in-line skating, and almost everywhere else. My wife, on the other hand, prefers to nurture, read, and play quietly with our children. Soon our kids learned that Daddy meant swinging on a swing and Mummy meant baking. I pick the strawberries with my kids. My wife and kids toss the berries into muffins. For us, it's a great mix.

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