With Kids, a ‘Clean’ Home Is Impossible

So why do I still feel guilty?

Lindsay Hunter
Human Parts
Published in
7 min readApr 25, 2018

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Photo: Josh Calabrese on Unsplash

“Y“You know,” I said to my husband the other day, as our youngest was mashing banana into the couch and our oldest was ripping paper into strips and letting them flutter to his feet, “people shouldn’t be so judgy about how clean other people’s homes are. Especially if they have kids.”

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Lindsay Hunter
Human Parts

Lindsay Hunter is the author of two story collections and two novels, most recently Eat Only When You’re Hungry. She lives in Chicago.