My Favorite Baby Carrier's Blog

I for one am very happy to be raising my children along WITH my husband.  Yes, I am still the primary parent and he is still the primary bread winner, but he is very involved.  To a degree, I can  understand where this woman is coming from in her article:  When it comes to parenting how much does your husband do? But I don’t know that it should be a contest.  Some husbands have more time than others.  My husband works at home and is able to spend a lot of time with the kids, but he has a bad back and so I would rather he play with the kids than do the housecleaning (which he does help with).  I know plenty of men who do more housework than my husband does, but should I compare him to them?  I also have friends who are home all day long with the kids while their husbands are away for work – often traveling.  So when weekends come, the women are off and the kids are with Dad.  I tend to be the one with the kids for the bulk of the week.  I drive them to all their activities, I do the lion’s share of the homeschooling, and there are days we don’t see Daddy from breakfast to dinner, however, we try to be together on weekends.  My husband and I don’t really see it as, “your turn, my turn”.  We are raising our children, not just babysitting them till they grow up.  Most men today, that I see at the zoo or in the mall, seem much more involved than my Dad was.  These men are using the changing tables in the Men’s rooms, burping the babies, and wearing their babies.  In fact these days, the Ergo Baby Carrier, as well as other carriers, are specifically designed to fit men and they even come in colors which men won’t mind wearing.  My husband wore our daughters in the Ergo Baby Carrier all the time, despite his back issues – that says a lot for that carrier!  I am excited that my kids spend a lot of time with their Daddy.  My Mom didn’t really trust my Dad with us – there are stories of him forgetting to feed us, losing track of us, and then there was the time that my brother,John fell out of the back of the pick-up truck as we were driving down the road.  The few times he cooked dinner for us, are memorable.  Anyone else ever had johnny cake puddin’?  It’s mashed up corn bread (called johnny cake in Maine) with milk poured on top.  Oh, and chocolate fudge for dessert!  Of course we should be appreciative for all our husbands do, and vise-versa.  I am surprised that’s even a question.

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