"Consider helping out with the cooking and cleaning"

Notters

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Oct 20, 2003

24,869

Guiseley

• Apr 10, 2015

• #1

Has anyone else found that the advice to expectant Dad's is incredibly out of date?

Wherever you look on the net, the advice seems to be to consider helping out with the housework, read up about babies, etc... Even an email I got from the NHS which says "show her you care by doing more of the cooking and cleaning..."

All this seems quite offensive to the modern man!

 

Nibble

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Jan 3, 2007

19,238

• Apr 10, 2015

• #2

Of course it is.

 

GreersElbow

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Jan 5, 2012

4,870

A Northern Outpost

• Apr 10, 2015

• #3

Yeah, but sexism is only when women are being forced to follow traditional gender roles. Remember your white male privilege.

 

Miocene

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Mar 23, 2011

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Hastings

• Apr 10, 2015

• #4

Yup, not very good at all. I just do what needs to be done really.

 

spongy

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Aug 7, 2011

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Burgess Hill

• Apr 10, 2015

• #5

I got a bit miffed with it as I do everything round here except the cooking anyway. What gets my goat more is the fact that the missus won't help out by doing some washing occasionally to help out. It's only loading the washing machine, pressing a button and waiting for an hour��

I know we have a baby who is refusing to sleep at night so she's tired, but so am I. And I'm working 12 hours a day to help cover our income whilst she's on maternity. Working on a BrakePress isn't advisable when not concentrating 100%. It's far too easy to lose fingers.

 

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Greavsey

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Jul 4, 2007

1,129

• Apr 10, 2015

• #6

Agreed. Complete joke in this day and age. But then perhaps there are still less enlightened men/couples across the country that do still conform to parental stereotypes?

The only thing I haven't done with our kids is breast feed, which to be fair with my moobs I could have had a good try at!

 

Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003

55,721

Back in Sussex

• Apr 10, 2015

• #7

As long as you don't do anything beyond just considering it, you're doing just fine.

 

Man of Harveys

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Jul 9, 2003

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Brighton, UK

• Apr 10, 2015

• #8

I think it's probably mainly aimed at NORTHERNERS