Basically men seem to be able to focus on one thing at a time. My husband admits this is the case, and says he could never work from home with the kids in the background. But I must be lucky, he is great at the ironing and even though he works away all week, he will still lend a hand at home. I guess he got fed up wearing my version of crumpled clothes! Still, I find it takes him ages to get round to doing anything and often do things myself just to get it out the way. He can be in the same room as the kids whilst they are up to mischief, and still not notice!! And at times I think he doesn´t appreciate how lucky he is... when we moved to Spain guess who learnt Spanish and now deals with everything, whilst he just about manages " Dos cervezas" at the bar!! He has no inclination to do it, and now has the ideal excuse - he can´t understand! Ah well, at the end of the day I´d rather be here than anywhere else!