Eve Rodsky

I want to just be completely transparent.

We have an amazing nanny.

We moved to LA for Seth's parents.

We would have

I think we would have been even more successful if we could stay on the East Coast.

I feel like everything happens on the East Coast.

So we have Seth's parents and our amazing nanny.

We have a college UCLA student who helps drive our middle son to all of his practices, which are over an hour and a half away, three times a week for his club basketball.

So as parenting has become more intensive –

It's harder and obviously that's an incredibly privileged position.

So we have a lot of amazing executors.

But this is the interesting thing.

What Seth used to think was, well, if Eve is so overwhelmed, she should get help.

And he now says that was like the most sexist thing ever because now he realizes that as much as we love our village, Alexia is not deciding whether our child's adenoids are being taken out.

And so what he realized, what I realized when we went through the cards for the hundredth time, because we've been practicing fair play for almost a decade now, is that about 50 of the cards, and this is what Seth realized, are not outsourceable.

So even if you have a partner who says, oh, if you're so overwhelmed, get help.

I want women especially to know that then start with the non-outsourceable cards because

Again, as much as you love Alexia, she's typically not doing your Elf on the Shelf.

She's not doing Santa.

She's not replacing the carrot and the cookie with the sparkle dust.