Married Team Divides Parenting Like Olympic Relay, Chaos Still Wins
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- â˘Rachel and her husband divide parenting duties based on their strengths to manage their busy large family life.
- â˘The husband handles field trips, sports logistics, and childrenâs medication, including replenishments and pill sorting.
- â˘Rachel manages education communication, medical appointments, and volunteers regularly in a childrenâs school library.
Rachel and her husband boldly tackle large-family life with their 'divide and conquer' parenting plan, starring four kids including two teens and one almost-teen. The husband, field trip MVP and only dad in the wild turf of school outings, also moonlights as sports scheduler, gear buyer, and a four-day band competition road warrior. Meanwhile, Rachel, a type 1 diabetic and breast cancer survivor, manages medical appointments with the swagger of a seasoned pro and volunteers in the school library just to remind the kids she exists beyond IEP meetings. Both parents referee chore chart enforcement, because even Olympic-level parenting requires a halftime report on dusting duties.
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Four kids, endless schedules, one pill organizer Sunday ritual, and a chore chart referee duo prove parenting is less 'leave it to Beaver' and more 'Survivor: Suburban Edition.'
Assigning parental jobs by interest: because nothing says love like outsourcing medicine sort and field trip fate to the spouse.
When you spend more time exchanging chore updates than watching a TV show, itâs not chaos, itâs a family production meeting.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/22/2025 | Author: Rachel Garlinghouse
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