:You probably don’t have to clean toilets, take out the trash, mop the floors, etc”
Toilets are done once a week generally, trash doesn’t always go out everyday and floors aren’t mopped everyday. Plus, a few kids around the house who are of age can be tapped to do those things.
Have you ever taken care of a house.
Let’s add a few more things: cooking/cleaning the kitchen 3 times a day, grocery shopping, tons of laundry, dusting, filing, clean showers/bathtubs,
If there are older kids, they are at school most of the day, and when they are home they are doing homework. You may be able to count on them to load the dishwasher or take out the trash, but that’s about it.
Also if kids are in school, then you are spending a good portion of the day driving them to/from school and then to after school activities.
What I really love is the juggle of getting dinner done, and helping with homework all at the same time.
I work a lot harder as a mom of 3 kids then I ever did as an engineer for a defense contractor.