| Depends on the age of the child. With an infant you're changing 7 diapers per day, feeding 6 times per day. Also you forgot making breakfast (7 days/week), lunch on the weekends (although many husbands take a bag lunch, so the wife makes that too) and 7 days/week for the kids. Dishes (and if you have kids you probably know that a lot of stuff needs to be handwashed). Additionally there is bathing the child. Once they get teeth and hair, brushing their hair, and brushing their teeth twice per day. Also grocery shopping. Clothes shopping. Random nicknack shopping. Going anywhere out of the house takes an extra 10 minutes on top of how long it normally takes, with the car seats and grocery carts. When children get older, 2-5, you don't have the diapers, but you have potty training, which takes forever (and sometimes results in 3 baths per day). Also the bedtime routine (which can be an hour per day for nap and nighttime). Then there's random stuff like dentist visits for the child. Doctor's visits for the child. And then there's just teaching the child. Teach the child how to eat for themself. How to pick up their toys, taking them to the park or on playdates. And this assumes you have a pretty troublefree kid. Add relatively common complicators like a kid who is collicky or has food allergies (which often means a span of a few months with a lot of trips to the hospital) or has GURD and there's more time there. I don't know how many more hours this stuff. I suspect it is highly variable. And if you have four kids, it's probably a lot different than one. But if someone told me they were working 60 hours per week taking care of a household with kids age 0 to 6, I'd believe them. Once children go to school fulltime, things change quite a bit. But I think most people are referring to the period of time when they have to take care of the kids. BTW, I had my first job at 10. Paperboy. |