by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 16, 2020 | Parenting Young Kids
What if there were an app that could help your kids get more responsible with chores–and with money? We’ve been talking this month about emotional labor and mental load–how to balance all the details that women especially have running through our...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 8, 2020 | Life
When we’re trying to divide up the mental load, one of the problems we run into is agreeing on what actually needs to be done. This month we’re looking at emotional labor and mental load, and we started our series last week talking about the problem of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 5, 2020 | Resolving Conflict
How does mental load affect stress? This week we’ve been talking on the blog about mental load and emotional labor, in three posts: What is emotional labor and mental load? The Fair Play solution Our podcast on mental load A bunch of you have sent me emails, and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 6, 2019 | Marriage
Do you ever feel like your husband’s maid? Every Monday I like to put up a reader question and take a stab at answering it. And today’s I think is a sentiment that many of us have had: is my whole life just cleaning up after him? This is a question I get a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 1, 2019 | Life
Homemaking is hard to do well. Maybe you’re someone who’s really gifted at it (my youngest daughter falls into that category), but most of us find it a bit challenge. When the kids were young and I was a genuine stay at home mom, I’d often find that...
