8 Things My Husband Rocks At!
Food. It’s not just that he’s a better cook than I am. I’ve known plenty of dudes who cook. And when we started dating, he was totally a cooking dude: he’d make elaborate meals from expensive ingredients that took hours to pull off and made your mouth water with every bite. Amazing food, hugely resource intensive. Forget the practical side of food: making sure there were after-school snacks in the pantry and throwing together a half-hour quick dinner at the end of a workday. That all fell on my shoulders. Until it didn’t. 8 years in, he’s grown into really managing the food for our family. He makes the shopping lists. He goes to the store. He preps the school lunches and cooks dinner nearly every day. He’s become a food hero in our house. Trash. We have lived here for three years and I am not sure when trash day is. ‘Nuff said. Fashion .Girls' Fashion Isn't Looking So Good
OK, so girls’ clothes are over-focused on appearance. They also offer up stats on the difference between boys and girls choices when it comes to “action shirts”; T-shirts that depict a sport, or a thing happening, as opposed to just standing around look cute.
Unsurprisingly, boys have a lot more options in the action department, even though there are more girls’ shirts overall.
Mike Adamick, who wrote the column, goes on at eloquent length about the problems with the prints emblazoned on little girls’ tees. It’s a common refrain among parents I know, but not one I’ve encountered much of. Buried in his article, I found a partial answer to why.
Target. Of the four major clothing retailers he looked at, only Target did a decent job of offering athletic clothes to kids of both sexes, as well as some cute stuff for each and some plain, old-school clothes. We mostly shop at Target, when we shop at all. So that explains in part why my girls’ closets are full of stripes and floral prints and the occasional cute creature but not a lot of sexist slogans.
In addition to finger puppets and plush figures from history (the Dali Lama, Marie Curie, Frieda Kahlo), there are tongue-in-cheek political mugs, T-shirts and more for the eye-roller in your family or friend network (philosophersguild.com).
