Blow Their Nose, and Your Own

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 8 p.m.

Because women can seem so much better at this parenting stuff, because historical gender roles have often decided for them that most household duties are their responsibility, there is a secret strategy that father\u2019s have been relying on for generations: Pretend to be bad at something and your wife (or your mother or a well-meaning neighbor) will take care of it for you. Feign like you can\u2019t figure out the car seat? Here, I\u2019ll do it.Make a couple really bad dinners. Here, I\u2019ll do...