A friend of mine once told me that the experience of the first two weeks made him want to have more kids. This seemed an absurd proposition, so I asked him to elaborate. He argued that everything that the baby did in the first couple...
fatherhood
For the first few months, I was responsible for more general day-to-day child care than my wife. She was working full time, and since I was teaching only one course.
Brief note before we continue: No part of this series should be thought of as an authoritative statement about pregnancy, parenthood, or anything else. Rather, it should be understood as.
Friday will be the girl's first birthday, and in honor of one year as a parent I thought that I would toss together a few things I wrote on the topic (some from way back) and try to make a series of it. The first...