This week I’ve been given my first taste of what it is like to be a stay at home dad, while not really being a stay at home dad. Like most families here in the US, when my wife delivered she took maternity leave from her place of employment. For the past three-months she has been with our daughter day in and day out. With her maternity leave ending, and night classes in full swing, the time has come for …
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Just the other day I was browsing through recent status updates on Facebook when I came across something interesting. A friend, and soon to be father, Dr. Terry Simpson, made an observation about child warnings. Terry Simpson says: Funny thing happened to me — I use to laugh at the plastic bags that had the warnings about suffication. Now I think about JJ – and I pay attention. Life changes It seems strange to look back at the way I …
Ever since my wife and I began to share the news of our expected baby, I have been offered a great many words of wisdom. One of the most common came from parents telling me that when the child is born my life will change forever. Being an expecting parent, I think I took that for granted. I assumed that my wife and I would give and receive unconditional love from our child. I also thought it was a little …
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