Commentary: COVID-19 has made me rethink household chores and clearning

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Commentary: COVID-19 has made me rethink household chores and clearning
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Everyone is more appreciative of each other when we have to share chores, says the Financial Times' Rana Foroohar.

The first week we let the dust and dirt build. The second week we silently longed for fresh sheets, changed by someone else.

Given that this took Lilly roughly eight hours a week, I estimated that it should take the four of us only two hours apiece to do the same. As a show of leadership and largesse, I even volunteered to handle the largest bathroom. Now more than ever, I think that the type of work people do should factor into our thinking about entitlement reform and retirement policies.

Helicopter parenting and “enrichment” activities did not exist back then, at least not where we lived. My extracurricular activities included mowing grass, shovelling snow, and looking after my younger brother when she couldn’t.

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