It just occurred to me that I am so used to multitasking that if I am only doing ONE thing, I'd feel like I have lots of time in my hands.
And this of course is especially true at home. I am used to having more than one conversation at any one time. A regular conversation at home will be me listening to at least two other people at the same time. A sample of it:
the meeting was a waste of time my teacher is asking me to start working on the home project mummy when can we start on it my friend is being difficult with me because she is not talking to me my back is hurting from all that sitting down in front of the computer mummy where is my school tie why are my boobs growing too fast we are out of bread can you please help me colour these pictures
And then there is me giving three different instructions to three different kids, and making them understand which instruction is for which kid. The new helper gets all confused too, because sometimes she thinks some of those instructions are meant for her. Like she thought she had to organise their school bags and that's stressful since she can't read.
At any time, I coach two kids at one go with homework on different subjects unless it's their Math homework. That's the husband's domain. I suffer from having to help them solve their Math homework. Math and me, we don't get along that well. But I digress.
Studies have shown women are more adept to multitasking than men (don't shoot/hate the messenger). But I tell ya, wife-dom and mummyhood take multitasking to a whole new level.
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Its funny, cuz I was talking to one of my Professors today and she was lamenting about how she used to be really good at multitasking and she wasn't anymore. I told her it was becuase she'd been married for 8 years and still didn't have any kids. She wasn't too excited to have kids just to improve her multitasking skills.
However, it is true that, in the restaurant I work at, women usually do better at working the sautee line than men do. And the Mexican women, especially the mothers, do better than the high schoolers. I knew a gal once who could keep all six burners going without burning anything, micromanage everone else in the kitchen, prep more food, occasionally steal bags of food from the walk-in fridge, and have me wrapped around her little finger with ease. It probably had something to do with the fact that she had been in charge of a ranch in Mexico with three kids and inlaws to keep track of, a meal to cook, a house to clean, and a yard with chickens to care for. I don't mean to be racist and condescending, but as a culture of workers, we can't hold a candle to the capacities of the Mexican housewife.
"She wasn't too excited to have kids just to improve her multitasking skills." LOL!!
I think all housewives should be called Domestic Goddess and be paid a gazillion dollars a month.
Unfortunately, with the respect society has for housewives, that gazillion dollars would probably come in Monopoly money... :)
Sad but so true :(
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