I'm 40+, have two kids under two, and I'm the parent who is doing the most cleaning. The problems I outlined in the example were _always_ true in my household,

I'm 40+, have two kids under two, and I'm the parent who is doing the most cleaning. The problems I outlined in the example were _always_ true in my household, but the added stress of two kids have made the flaws in our process that much more clear. ie, we could do a fine enough imperfect job before we had any kids. With one kid it was busy but do-able, and with two kids I'm trying to get the household to rethink how we tackle this. I didn't use kids in my example to preach to parents. I used it because it's painfully top of mind for me currently.