Two Working Parents, One 1950s Playbook: Why Moms Are So Exhausted

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Two working parents, one 1950s playbook, and this is the problem. I was literally talking to friends today commiserating over the fact that managing my family's schedule, like the playdates and doctor's appointments and soccer games and birthday parties is a part-time job, and I am doing that on top of my own full-time job, and it's so hard. Most families need two incomes to get by, but our systems still assume that someone is home managing the house, the meals, the kids. So what happens? Moms end up doing two full-time jobs, the paid one and the invisible one. And then everyone wonders why moms are so exhausted all the time. It's not burnout because we're weak. It's overload by design. So you're not doing it wrong. You're doing it in a world that hasn't caught up and it is truly so hard.