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Tips for Living with a Danish Family

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 9:17 a.m.

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As the new academic semester starts up, some of you may be planning to live in a Danish home. It could be you\\u2019ll rent a room in a household, maybe you\\u2019ll be part of a Danish host family, or maybe you\\u2019ll just be staying with Danish friends.

I thought it might be useful to have some tips on living with a Danish family.

First of all, if you\\u2019re used to having your parents or domestic workers do most of the household chores \\u2013 things are about to change.

Danish families generally don\\u2019t have live-in domestic workers. A few wealthy families with small children have au pairs, and it\\u2019s common to have a weekly cleaning person, but on a day-to-day basis, household chores are done by all the members of the family.

Male, female, young, old, everybody does their part. (In fact, statistics show that Danish men do more household chores than any other men in Europe.)


So, if you\\u2019re going to live as part of a Danish family, there will probably be household chores for you, too. If you don\\u2019t know how to wash dishes, or clean a floor, or do laundry, have somebody teach you before you leave home.

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