If you're the default parent, chances are you're the one keeping everything ticking over—main carer for the children, managing the life admin, sorting the household jobs, and remembering all the little (and big!) details. You’ve got a running mental checklist of what needs doing and when. You probably wish you just had a pause button to get on top of everything.
The mental load is sometimes referred to as the invisible load, hidden load, cognitive load and most recently kinkeeping. But what really is it? It’s about more than juggling a family, a job, and the housework. It’s the unseen pressure of not only co-ordinating the lives of small people, but all the emotional aspects of life too. It’s more than just managing the food shopping, household...
A new Web-based App, designed to help parents and carers manage the mental load has been created. Parent List is focused on promoting positive mental health and mental wellbeing, offering practical parent-first support by enabling users to access hundreds of FREE helpful checklists to help calm the chaos of day-to-day parenting.
Aimed at parents and carers of children aged 0-5, the...
