69. The Mental Load of Staying Home




Comfort Food show

Summary: Managing home school schedules, balancing WFH with a total lack of childcare, grocery store stress — parents are navigating many new mental load challenges right now, and moms, not surprisingly, are carrying the bigger burden. This week we're talking about the schedules we've come up with to (sort of) keep work and school on track in our own families, how we're preserving an equal division of domestic responsibilities with our spouses, and why Virginia is deleting the gym teacher's emails and you can too.