Naughty List & Sharing Chores

If you are on the naughty list, Dangerous Dave says "don't worry", you are probably still getting stuff from Santa. Plus, though chores may be shared, the mental load probably is not.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This, he's deeper in the den with dangerous deed. Well,
if Santa's the only reason your kids behaving, don't tell
them this. A bull found most parents think the naughty
or nice thing is overblown. Eighty seven percent of people
expect Santa to bring your kids presence even if they
landed on the naughty list. This here, it's great news
for all the troublemaking brats out there because they're at

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Christmas Hall. Well won't take a real hit without them.
So the average, fifty one percent of kids Christmas gifts
come from Santa, forty nine percent from their parents and
other relatives. Paul Will also found he's responsible for about
half of the best gifts that they're going to get,
So out of the best gifts, they come from Santa.
You know I'd do it the other way around, wouldn't you.

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Deeper in the two you think it's easy to split
the household chores, like, Okay, I'll take out the trash
and you deep clean the bathrooms. There's a little more
nuance to that. A study from the Journal of Marriage
and Family analyzed three thousand American households with at least
one child under the age of eighteen They found that
there's a mental load disparity on one percent of the
brain work falls on moms, where fathers managed just forty

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five percent. Study identified two categories in brain labor, daily
task focused on immediate family well being and episodic tasks
related to maintenance and finances. Mothers shoulder seventy nine percent
of the daily cognitive tasks, more than twice what fathers do.
That includes tracking children's schedules, meal planning, and monitoring household supplies.

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Fathers take on more of an episodic mental work, though
mothers handle a significant portion at fifty three percent, it
sounds like there's some duplication there. For example, a majority
of mothers sixty one percent in fathers at fifty seven percent,
report being primarily responsible for tracking the household expenses. For
single parents, both moms and dads tend to handle the

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types of brain work equally, and yes, single fathers take
a significant more amount of mental work than their partnered fathers.
So I imagine as a single parent you would have
to I'm not saying I don't share my share of
the mental load in my household, but when her capacities
twice of mine, what do you expect tune in again
for another episode of Deeper in the Den with dangerous

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Dave right here