Article: Quit telling family members how to do chores

After delivering my fourth child, in six years, I felt a tad overwhelmed. My thoughtful hardwood floor-installing husband offered to do household chores while I rested upstairs, and first on the list (on any woman's list) was the Dreaded Linoleum Kitchen Floor. Mentally calculating the time needed for the remaining chores, I figured the floor should take him only 20 minutes. For those of you who are laughing at this plan, remember I was on pain killers. An hour and a half later I could stand it no longer. What was he doing, painting the Sistine Chapel? Bravely, I waddled to the top of the stairs where I saw him -- pushing his hardwood floor machine with buffer pad over the linoleum, shaking ...

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