Good or less good to experience the intensity of your young children's emotions? Sometimes may be better to gently switch off, but what may be missed or misunderstood in doing so?
Old dad accepts - sometimes reluctantly - that this is what it's all about - and tries to get the best of both worlds by blogging about it - fatherhood, that is....
I'm a 64 year old father with 5 children, oldest Jo 36 with 2 year old son Fidel, youngest Bobby 1, with Emily 29, Anna 12, and Grace 4 in the middle. Three mothers. One divorce. Married again last Saturday to the Mum of the youngest three. When I was 50 I thought the baby thing was all over but not a bit of it. Three more. So the run in to oblivion will be childcare. Lot's of it. And on the principle of IF YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM JOIN THEM I've decided, in that man way, to write about the still unfolding experience - a man's take on four decades of baby making, from the heady early years of 70s feminism, through communes, to nuclear convention, nuclear implosion, to family stability and a bus pass.
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