Change the diapers, clean the house, give baths, break up fights, read bed-time stories, cook meals, the list goes on.

Still, I could never do all that my wife did as mother. If she were to have worked and I were to have taken over all those jobs completely, rather than simply sharing them they would definitely have been deprived.

Because my wife could do all of it better than me. She is more consistent, conscientious, and has an intuition for what is needed that I could never have. So, I am a believe in a mother-power that only women have.

It is not that I think men are above those things, but that women are naturally better (in most cases - not all) and that, while every self-respecting father and husband should help in all those, he will always be giving his wife the managerial role in most of those tasks. He should if he is wise.

There are a few things which dads are usually better at, but just a few of the less vital things.