
Fair Play
A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
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Eve Rodsky
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Eve Rodsky
About this listen
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with." (Reese Witherspoon)
Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way....
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family - and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it.
The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than 500 men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With four easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore from laundry to homework to dinner.
"Winning" this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space - as in, the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.
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- By SideQuest on 11-25-18
By: Gemma Hartley
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Everything Inside
- Stories
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.
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I liked it but I wanted to like it more than I did.
- By Nath G. on 07-11-20
By: Edwidge Danticat
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To Have and to Hold
- Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
- By: Molly Millwood
- Narrated by: Molly Millwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A clinical psychologist’s exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood. When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect was what she would lose: aspects of her identity, a baseline level of happiness, a general sense of well-being.
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Pretty good
- By C Sandell on 03-07-21
By: Molly Millwood
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The Parent's Tao Te Ching
- Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
- By: William Martin
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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William C. Martin has freshly reinterpreted the Tao Te Ching to speak directly and clearly to the most difficult of modern tasks—parenting. With its combination of free verse and judicious advice, The Parent's Tao Te Ching addresses the great themes that permeate the Tao and that support loving parent-child relationships: responding without judgment, emulating natural processes, and balancing between doing and being.
By: William Martin
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Fair Play
- By: Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal
- Narrated by: Emma D'Arcy
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Fair Play is a poignant portrayal of the intricacies of love and work through the lens of two women, both accomplished artists, whose intimate relationship defied societal norms. Set against the backdrop of Helsinki and summers on their remote island paradise, Jansson weaves together the nuanced details of the women's creative lives, offering a rich tapestry of their daily routines, artistic process, and innermost thoughts. Through the lens of their unique relationship, we witness a true example of progressive love, where generosity and respect are key to a beautiful and thriving partnership.
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emma d'arcy needs to narrate as many books as possible
- By Kindle Customer on 08-23-24
By: Tove Jansson, and others
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Screaming on the Inside
- The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
- By: Jessica Grose
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities.
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Well done - leaves a little to be desired
- By Chendo on 12-29-22
By: Jessica Grose
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Emotional Labor
- The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
- By: Rose Hackman
- Narrated by: Rose Hackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Emotional labor is essential to our society and economy, but it’s so often invisible. In this groundbreaking, journalistic deep dive, Rose Hackman shares the stories of hundreds of women, tracing the history of this kind of work and exposing common manifestations of the phenomenon. But Hackman doesn’t simply diagnose a problem—she empowers us to combat this insidious force and forge pathways for radical evolution, justice, and change.
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 04-17-23
By: Rose Hackman
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Attitude Is Your Superpower
- How to Create Incredible Life-Changing Success
- By: Eduardo Clemente
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 4 hrs
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You might be in a negative spiral, productively or psychologically, stuck thinking you’re just not good enough, you’ll never get ahead, and the world is unfair. Or perhaps you feel pretty good about your attitude, but you know there’s always room for improvement, and you’re curious about what you can tweak to do better. Whatever your current position, you have the opportunity to take agency at work and in life. You can actively improve your situation because it all comes down to attitude, and your attitude is not set in stone.
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Attitude the key to open doors
- By Anonymous User on 07-30-24
By: Eduardo Clemente
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You Can Win
- By: Shiv Khera
- Narrated by: Susheel Kumar
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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A practical, common-sense guide that will lead you from ancient wisdom to modern-day thinking, You Can Win will help you to establish new goals, develop a renewed sense of purpose and generate fresh and exciting ideas about yourself and your future. Shiv Khera guarantees, as the title suggests, a lifetime of success. The audiobook enables you to translate positive thinking into attitude, ambition and action, all of which combine to give you the winning edge.
By: Shiv Khera
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The Leader in You
- By: Michael A. Crom, Stuart R. Levine, Dale Carnegie & Associates
- Narrated by: Stuart R. Levine
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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For 80 years, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has been training people to get the most out of what they put into their careers. The Leader in You builds on the fundamentals of human relationships to help you develop your own innate leadership skills. Learn basic techniques and find the leader in you to succeed.
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the agony and the agony
- By Zach on 06-16-03
By: Michael A. Crom, and others
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Still Lives
- A Novel
- By: Maria Hummel
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the LA art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition, Still Lives, is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous murdered women - the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others - and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.
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Second fail from Reese
- By jestans on 08-12-18
By: Maria Hummel
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You Can Be an Optimist
- Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
- By: Lucy MacDonald
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Optimism is an attitude that sets us up for life success by helping us focus on what works and how we contribute to what works. Optimistic people have more fun, are healthier, and achieve more of their potential. Optimistic thinking is a skill that anyone can learn. In this simple, easy-to-use audiobook, Lucy Macdonald will show you how to harness the power of optimism to help you create a more positive, upbeat attitude to life.
By: Lucy MacDonald
Could Be Ground Breaking . . . .
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Super Helpful!
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Amazing! Balanced, fair, and positive!
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fair play
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Además, me irritó que hasta el capítulo 7 el libro no planteara dejar de hacer ciertas cosas para reducir la carga; algo que ya venía pensando desde el primer capítulo. La estructura del programa, que consiste en compartir problemas para observar la reacción del otro, me disgustó. Creo que primero debería haberse construido una alianza en reuniones separadas.
Me sentí excluido y ofendido por la estructura de las tareas propuestas en el libro, que parecen sacadas de actividades que tradicionalmente realizan las mujeres, ignorando las tareas que realizan los hombres. Además, me frustra que todas las responsabilidades recaigan únicamente en los padres, ignorando que los hijos también pueden ser responsables de ciertas tareas según su edad.
La forma en que el libro maneja las solicitudes, tratándolas como órdenes, y la sugerencia de pedir ayuda a terceros en lugar de a la pareja, me pareció irrespetuosa y una mala práctica. También me molestó que el autor no propusiera una disculpa o un plan correctivo adecuado cuando las cosas no van bien, sino simplemente una redistribución de tareas. Estas dinámicas me parecen lejos de fomentar un entorno de respeto y cooperación en las relaciones.
mediocridad
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This book could’ve been a meeting
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Must read for all women
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Eve does such a good job of articulating the exact level of annoyance and frustration women feel when all of the weight of the household responsibilities default...or "shefault" to us. But she offers hope in the form of a new approach to help busy moms and dads get on the same page.
Love the idea of making task sharing a game to lighten the mood and keep nagging (and resentment) at bay.
Required reading for moms!
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Feeling it!
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ok.
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