What is Fair Play in Feeding?
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It’s nearly impossible to have a discussion about labor inequality and the mental load of parenting without mention of Fair Play, a book by Eve Rodsky and accompanying system for dividing household responsibilities. But is it really an answer? And how does it play out, specifically, for feeding a family?
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| 0:00.0 | If you've never learned how to do laundry or you've never learned how to make spaghetti |
| 0:11.0 | and meatballs from scratch, someone has to teach you. |
| 0:14.5 | And who is it typically in this dynamic of cis hetero partnerships, it's the woman. |
| 0:21.8 | So, like, great, we can sort the cards. |
| 0:24.4 | But on top of having my 50 cards and you having your 50 cards, I have to teach you how to do 30% of your cards. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:34.6 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:38.3 | Hey, I'm Stacey. |
| 0:39.9 | And I'm Megan. |
| 0:41.2 | May is Mental Health Awareness Month. |
| 0:43.6 | And since there is so much mental labor involved in feeding our families, we thought it was |
| 0:48.5 | time to revisit Mental Load in the kitchen. |
| 0:51.3 | Our listeners community has been asking us for a while to discuss the fair play |
| 0:56.0 | method too. So we're going to get into that and how it relates to feeding as a task for families. |
| 1:02.9 | It's interesting because fair play, it's a book, it's a system, it's a game. We'll talk about |
| 1:09.2 | that in a second, but it's been around for a little while as a concept. And it comes up in our listeners boards at least once a year. But, you know, people have even been like, oh, you should have E. Rodski on. She's done a ton of interviews. And we feel like we're sort of living it, and that's where |
| 1:28.7 | we want to come from this lived experience with some practical strategies for how you can |
| 1:35.0 | think about fair play as a concept when it comes to feeding your family. |
| 1:40.6 | But we have talked about doing a sort of book clip reading of Eve Rodsky's Fairplay in our listeners community, in the free area. |
| 1:51.2 | If that's something you guys are interested in, you should definitely be a member of our free listeners community, which is our listeners board. |
| 1:59.1 | You also get access to our recipes, so that's |
| 2:00.8 | fun too. If you're not, you should go to dinaijustfeedu.com backslash community and you should |
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