Mum and dad: new contemporary roles

18 January 2017

My husband doesn’t help ME
Because he also lives at home with us, and he is a parent, too. My husband, like me, simply takes care of everything, just as I do.

 

They are subtle words, but even today they make us understand the role of the housewife and devoted mother is still, too often, a matter for women.
When a man does the housework or changes the diaper, we often hear:
– How lucky you are, your husband helps YOU.

 

Helps ME? Or is he simply helping himself?

In the end, doesn’t he live in the same house? Didn’t we have a child together? Don’t we both work?

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We need to change our choice of words. Because through small changes, comes the will for big changes: bear in mind that husbands are perfectly capable of doing the washing, and above all, being good fathers.

 

Do we let them?
Do we know how to stand back?

 

We need to enter into the paradigm of change: to be equal, as mum and dad, is to plant the first seed for a happy future for us, and for our children. For an achievement which belongs to us all, and in the same way.

 

Let’s try it. Sit around the table, redefine everyone’s tasks, including the children.
If everyone does their part, we will all have more time to be together.