<p>I believe that we “create our own nags”. When I was younger, my dad would complain that my mom would nag him about her rose bushes. My mom REPEATEDLY asked him NOT to touch her roses…don’t trim, prune, nothing! She knew the proper way to care for them and she didn’t want him “messing” with them. </p>
<p>Well, Dad couldn’t seem to keep his paws off her roses, and Mom would nag him. Finally, I told him that he was in control to stop the nagging by leaving her roses alone. I told him that he “created his own nag” by repeatedly doing something that he had been told not to do.</p>
<p>Speaking of Coca Cola funding… I listened to a podcast the other day that explained how this game is played. The food companies have borrowed the strategy from the effort the tobacco companies made for years about smoking safety. The trick is to fund reliable industry-friendly scientists to do studies like this one. The goal is not to prove that junk food is safe. The goal is not even science, really. The goal is to throw up enough chaff so that you can point to studies like this and say that it has not been conclusively proven that drinking Coca Cola contributes to obesity.</p>
<p>The plotline that Coca Cola and the food industry is pushing is that all calories are the same and all foods are good to eat, in moderation and that supersized 64 ounce sugar drinks would be just fine if people would just get up off their butts and exercise like they used to.</p>
<p>As a matter of general sanity on nutrition, I would look at any study sponsored by the Coca Cola company as nothing but a paid advertisement.</p>
<p>Oh, and guess who the major sponsors of the dietician’s trade group are? Yep…</p>
<p>It’s it so wonderful that the Coca Cola Company spends so much to teach registered dieticians the latest science on healthy eating. Their generosity just warms the heart.</p>
<p>Is it any wonder that a registered dietician is probably the last place on earth you want to turn for sound nutrition advice? Look who is teaching them.</p>
<p>OK, I know a lot of guys are going to yelp that they do things—but I think the figures are in that most men think they are doing more housework than they actually are, and most women are still doing most of the work. Not being specific to anyone’s house or setup here, just saying.</p>
<p>I will take three or four days off from work later this month to clean the house. This includes pulling all of the furniture out, the refrigerator, maybe the stove, the beds, basement shelves, etc. My wife will clean inside the refrigerator, all of the food pantry areas, her closets, etc. We will also all clean our son’s apartment (he will probably help clean the house). Everyone will pitch in but it’s still a lot of work.</p>
<p>There are guys out there that take care of a lot of the household work and the kids.</p>
<p>BC, I believe you are the exception to the rule. I guess this is what you call “spring cleaning.”</p>
<p>Our neighbor’s wife went away for a month in January. The outdoor Christmas decorations remained up the entire time. As soon as she returned home, she immediately took all of them down. They both work, but she does all the housework AND the yard work to boot.</p>
<p>I am so lucky in my husband. Not only does he do whatever housework needs to be done - and more of it than I do since he is at home more - but he does almost all errands and driving because I try to never drive. I am going to make his favorite dinner tonight.</p>
<p>BCEagle, you work, do the laundry, the household finances and paperwork, a lot of chores. I think you said your wife was a SAHM. Your kids are working. What is left for your wife to do?</p>
<p>My husband does at most 5% of the housework. In his mind he is doing almost half. He truly believes it. It’s incredible. We hire out the yard work so it’s not like we each do our separate chores. (It would not bother me so much if I did not work full time outside the home.) No dinner for him! lol </p>
<p>There are some husbands that really do a fair amount of stuff around the house. However, they seem (to me) to be the exception and not the rule. </p>
<p>Three of my brothers are very helpful around the house (occasionally cook, clean, laundry), but even they admit that they aren’t doing half of the household duties which include various childcare duties. And, it’s not just the routine household/child duties, it’s also the various social obligations - ranging from doing the family and relatives gift shopping, holiday cards, party-planning/prep, etc.</p>
<p>I think it depends on where you live. Where I grew up, both parents worked and no one could afford to “hire” anyone so the chores were pretty evenly split. Around my friends at my private school, mom almost always did at least 85% of the stuff because she rarely worked.</p>
<p>I do agree though that it’s probably quite common for men to think they do more than they actually do.</p>
<p>I used to work in an office where each person had a week of “kitchen duty” for the break room. Only ONE guy did a good job when it was his week. The rest of the guys did a horrible job. The one guy who did a good job told me that his mom was widowed when he was young and he had to do a LOT around the house. The other men probably had very little kitchen experiences while growing up.</p>
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