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My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this:
Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about?
Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about?
Emma: I’m always thinking about princesses.
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Yesterday on the way home in the car my kids had a fight. A fight that resulted in both of them being in tears. A fight that involved me validating their feelings, but also telling them how damn lucky they are that they can get upset over such things.
By way of background to the conversation, [...]
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Just as when we were little, the kids got new pyjamas and settled down with the jolly white bearded guy (that’s my dad, otherwise known as Grandpa Santa Claus) for a reading of Twas the night before Christmas.
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Since I started my blog, I’ve been calling my kids “our daughter” and “our son”. While I don’t want to use their real names on the blog, I wanted them to have online names to help make the descriptions of them less impersonal. They have also expressed interest in being able to post here from [...]
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