
11-03-2003, 03:44 AM
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dm383,
Sure do. When our children were still infants, my wife and I decided to reduce the vividness of gender roles, so we began to pass household chores between us on a monthly basis. One month I'd do the food prep and ironing and she would do the sweeping out in front of the house and washing and drying the laundery. Then the next month we'd swap.
As children seem to take as normal whatever behavior is common as they grow up, the idea (hope) was that Jenny and Jack would be less inclined to assume that such and such was a boy's responsability and this or that is a girl's job.
As they grew up, we introduced them into the routine, saving cooking for last.
So yeah, that's a long way of saying that I've been doing the ironing on and off for many years now. This month is my month to sweep out front of the house.
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