Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, My wife is always mad at me. We have two kids in elementary school, we’ve been married […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: My husband and I have been married for five years. We both have decent paying jobs, both […]
Children soak up these messages and learn to tie their worth to the values they espouse. Men go out into the world and have adventures while women are wise caregivers who always know where your soccer shoes are when you need them. It’s 6.30pm. The kids are in their high chairs and you’re trying to […]
I make it a point to let them see me mow the lawn, take the garbage out, and do other “man jobs.” When I was a little girl, they told me I could do anything I wanted to. So I did. I mowed the lawn, drove the tractors, baled hay, and did manual labor on […]
Do you have a burning question about pregnancy, modern parenting or family life? Send it to Evie at AskEvieColumn@gmail.com or click here to submit your question anonymously. Dear Evie: My husband and I didn’t take the decision to have a baby lightly. We had many enlightened discussions about how we would care for our child, believing […]
For many mothers, our approach to sharing chores and childcare consists of doing the tasks ourselves, nagging our partner to do them, and then resenting that we are doing and nagging. That is a recipe for failure. Both men and women rank sharing household chores as the third most important ingredient in our recipe for a […]
The conversation about overworked mothers is not new. But what we don’t discuss as often is where—and how—to draw the line. And that nothing will change until we do. One of my favorite movie lines is from Star Trek: First Contact. Jean-Luc Picard is in the midst of a war with the Borg—who once abducted […]
The main question facing any equality-minded SAHM or SAHD is: How do you pay the bills without giving away your independence? And for many working-class parents, staying at home is not even an option. Can anything be done? Many of you probably recall the incident last October when Obama managed to (again) enrage the country’s […]
