S2 • E8 Dec 13, 2005 46m
North Vancouver's Penny Merletti is a part-time ER nurse, a job that probably helps her keep her cool while almost single-handedly gripping the parenting reins over her two active young children: Ally, age 7, and Andy, age 4. Her amiable husband, Alex, who runs the family construction business, was raised in a traditional home and thinks that cooking, cleaning, grocery and clothes shopping, and taking the kids to soccer are all 'women's work'. Besides, Alex thinks parenting is easy - all it takes, as in his business, is better organization, delegation of tasks and better time management. As for Penny, she wants her husband to stop taking her for granted, to realize that occasional babysitting isn't the same as 24/7 parenting, and to start pitching in!
