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Life has changed at Robin Milhausen’s house, where chores used to take up an hour or two after work each day and a few more on weekends.
Now, with her two adolescent children learning from home and the professional cleaning help cancelled, the days have become an 18-hour marathon of homework assistance, meal preparation, dishes, laundry and dog walks –
A Harvard professor strikes a chord in poem dedicated to frontline workers fighting the pandemic
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HOUSTON – A Harvard Medical School professor and doctor of internal medicine published a poem as an ode to essential workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic and their families and it’s now circulating widely on social media.
Wendy Stead, MD authored the poem “An Essential Worker’s List of Pandemic Chores for the Kids”, written about the children of essential workers who were left home to take care of the chores, from laundry to schoolwork.