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Mr. Mom Goes Back to Work
By Clarice Kennedy, WITI New York Leadership Council
Originally Published in The NY Enterprise Report, May 1, 2008
A business owner and mother of three shares her struggle to adapt to domestic duties after her stay-at-home husband returns to work
My husband, John, recently returned to work after spending the last 10 years raising our three sons and caring for my elderly and disabled father. He took his role very seriously and made it look very easy - food shopping, laundry, cooking (great cook!), dry cleaning, school trips, Little League, lacrosse practice, football practice... should I go on?
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