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- family
- October 7, 2019
This clever card game re-balances family tasks
"It you could make the invisible visible...things start to change."
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Rodsky went on a quest to figure out a solution for domestic re-balance. She interviewed 500 people in her research and found out about \"invisible work.\"
\"How do you value what you don't see? So if you could make the invisible visible ... things start to change,\" she said.
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Rodsky developed \"Fair Play\" -- a time-saving system which offers couples a fun,new way to divvy up domestic tasks -- so it won't all fall on one partner.
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In fact, a new Harvard University study says women hold the cognitive labor for household tasks.
With her research in mind, Rodsky came up with four rules, 100 household tasks and a figurative card game to play with your significant other.
\"Fair Play\" helps you prioritize what’s important to your family and who should own each responsibility. The cards have four suits, Home (handling dishes, groceries), Out (transporting kids), Caregiving (medical, dental appointments) and Magic (because it takes time to play Santa or the Tooth Fairy).
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The cards are available for free download once you purchase the book and internalize the four rules to \"Fair Play.\"
Here are Rodsky's four key rules.
\"For me it started with extra curricular sports,\" Rodsky said, adding her husband chose to own this responsibility in their own game of \"Fair Play.\"
Rodsky said if one person owns a card like extra curricular sports, then that person is responsible for it all: registering the children for their activity, xeroxing paperwork, providing snacks and arranging car pools for practice.
\"Once husband understood that it required full ownership, I got 8 hours of my week back,\" she added.
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\"A woman who told me she was afraid to talk about invisible work and fair play was the same person who told me she dumps wet clothes on her husbands pillow when he forgets to put them in the dryer,\" Rodsky said. \"It's a conversation shift, not a conversation start.\"
\"Shift the conversation to something productive,\" she said.
\"Fair Play\" is out now.
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