{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69e6c5aeabe143da5b42f969/69e6c5b80b4baf3bf24918d3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"EP 010: Why Parents With Childcare Are Still Exhausted | Mental Load & Burnout","description":"<p><em>But you have childcare… why are you still tired?</em>”<br>We got asked this recently and honestly, it stopped us in our tracks.</p><p>In this episode of <strong>Hot Messes, Big Visions</strong>, we unpack why having childcare doesn’t magically make parenting easy, why so many parents still feel exhausted <em>even with support</em>, and how modern parenting has quietly turned tiredness into a personal failure.</p><p>Spoiler: it’s not.</p><p>We talk about:</p><ul><li><p>Why childcare doesn’t cancel mental load (or emotional labour)</p></li><li><p>The pressure of mini mum “girl gangs” and comparison culture</p></li><li><p>Why parents are still everything to everyone — even after school and daycare drop-off</p></li><li><p>How we turn any spare capacity into <em>more responsibility</em> (hello degrees, side hustles, and “I’ll just do one more thing”)</p></li><li><p>And why being tired doesn’t mean you’re doing parenting wrong — it means you’re carrying a lot</p></li></ul><p>This isn’t a clapback.<br>It’s a very real, very honest chat between friends, the kind where you laugh, nod, and think <em>oh thank god it’s not just me</em>.</p><p>If you’re tired even with help, you’re not failing.<br>Parenting doesn’t get easy when you get support, it gets honest.</p>","author_name":"Nikki Pak, Sophia Phieros"}