THIS LABOR DAY: PUT YOUR CHILDREN TO WORK!

Kathy M. Newman
5 min readSep 6, 2020

American parents are a wreck. The beginning of online school for millions of children has created a domestic labor crisis. Certain pre-pandemic labors have intensified, such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Working from home, even if it means not having to wear a bra, can be more exhausting than working at the office. And, with online schooling, many parents, especially moms, have become online school…

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Kathy M. Newman

Kathy M. Newman is a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She’s also a wife, mother, artist and activist.