He said diapers weren’t a man’s job — So I called his father

While most societies strive for gender equality, we still have a long way to go before outdated ideas about what men and women should do are completely abandoned. While there is nothing “natural” about diving gender roles, it’s true when they say that old habits die hard.

Even today, certain tasks, especially those related to the household and raising the children, are considered women’s responsibility.

A woman shared a story of how she handled the situation when her husband said diapers weren’t a man’s job, and many praised her for what she did.

When their baby was welcomed into the world, her husband, Cole, sort of avoided the diaper duty all together. One night, at around 2 a.m. their baby daughter, Rosie, had an epic diaper disaster. She told her husband to handle the change while she grabbed some clean clothes. Unsurprisingly, he refused by groaning and pulling the blanket tighter. “You do it,” he mumbled. “I’ve got a meeting tomorrow.”

The truth was that the woman was also holding a job on top of all the work around the baby and the house. There were times when she was barely functioning from exhaustion.

“Cole, it’s bad. Please,” she said, to what he replied, “Changing diapers isn’t a man’s job, Jess. Just deal with it.”

Jess did change her daughter’s diaper, but she decided to teach her husband a lesson.

If he didn’t see parenting as a shared role, maybe there was someone else who could remind him of what being a dad really meant.

The following morning, Jess reached out to Cole’s dad for advice, hoping he could remind his son that taking care of a child was a shared responsibility. At that point, it wasn’t about the diapers, it was about understanding that a relationship and parenting is all about supporting each other.

That day, Cole realized that parenting was a team effort. He stopped making excuses and began sharing the workload, because true partnership means doing the dirty work too.

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Monica Pop
Monica Pop
Monica Pop is a senior writer for Bored Daddy magazine covering the latest trending and popular articles across the United States and around the world.

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