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Todd’s on the job!

My wife has been able to let me take on more domestics, including childcare, when her her ability to make more money and advance her career was at a threshold. We’ve been very fortunate and we both spend more time with our kids.

Possibly one of the biggest problems that we have is that my wife becomes jealous when she finds how good I am at the traditional mother’s jobs; mostly nurturing our kids. How olde fashioned. ;0)

Granted, it’s not VP of the US, but I have no doubt it could work. Today we split work and care for children. Life is good.

God bless you sir. So often when this sort of thing happens the men can't handle it emotionally. Having grown up in the 50s and 60s I can understand and sympathize. But for better or worse our world has changed, at least for the time being, and women are increasingly the ones making the most money or at least have the potential for making the most money in a family.

For a time in the early 80's that was the case in my family and it hurt my husband deeply. Fortunately, he finally got the job that advanced his career. It doesn't always happen and it doesn't matter really. If there is love and willingness to work together the family will do well no matter who the biggest bread winner is. Again God bless you.

Good point. Not only is Todd on the job - and appears to be very capable at that - she has Bristol, Willow and even Piper who I am sure do a lot of the physical care of the baby as well. Bristol will have her own baby soon, and is starting a new life with her hubby-to-be, but there’s still Willow and Piper.

Everybody keeps saying, how can she do this with five children. But the oldest is now an adult and isn’t even home anymore, the second is soon leaving home, the third is almost grown up, and the fourth looks like she’s coming along just fine in spite of her mother’s public life.

My sister had a baby after the youngest of her oldest four was five. She barely had anything to do because those four older ones *fought* over helping to take care of the baby.

Trig is in excellent hands and has better care than most babies. If this was Sarah’s first baby and had no other kids and/or an absent husband, I too would be really concerned. But given the circumstances as they are, I’m not.

Awesome, Joe!! Has anyone observed that Sarah Palin does not hire nannies, either—she has grandparents, aunts, uncles, her husband, and her teenaged children, not to mention an adoring sister age 7 to care for Trig. Back off, mommy monsters, and let this capable woman decide where her priorities are.