caring for others
- Caring for children / Parenting
- 9 Caring for children is a major task and highly undervalued in modern society. Stay at home parents care don’t earn money / isn’t seen as a job even though we owe much of our productive labor force to them (
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At present, billions of parents take care of children, neighbours look after one another, and citizens organise communities, without any of these valuable activities being recognised as jobs.
- 9 Caring for children is a major task and highly undervalued in modern society. Stay at home parents care don’t earn money / isn’t seen as a job even though we owe much of our productive labor force to them (
- caring for our parents
- giving them love and attention
- listening to them regularily
- calling my dad every wednesday evening
- caring for the old and dying
- not leaving a mess for others to resolve (
)1. Don’t Leave a Mess
Link to original - accepting hospice care is not giving up (
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We urged his wife, Beth, to request hospice care. But to her that meant giving up, and in her desperation for more time, she told the doctors that my father wanted to extend his life at all costs; he’d jotted it down on a napkin somewhere.
- not leaving a mess for others to resolve (