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  Re: Being a dad....
  By: Nigel Reed to Fidonet.DADS on Sun Feb 21 2021 03:36 am

 NR> Ask me 13 1/2 years ago if I wanted to be a father and I'd have said that
I wasn't
 NR> ready. Ask me now, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Its amazing what children do to you.

I too for many years never wanted to be a Dad. It wasnt that I didnt want it,
but more than I didnt think I could be a good one.

During my wife's pregnancy, it wasnt all chocolates and roses. Being pregnant
was difficult, it lasted 41 weeks and her labour lasted 36+hrs - as well as it
all being new for the both of us.

But the second my son was born - something changed. Here was this blob that I
was now completely responsible for, which was further enhanced 2 years later
by another blob, my daughter. Watching those blobs turn into little people,
who go from knowing nothing to have learnt to communicate, walk, socialise and
have opinions is just amazing, every day there is a new amazing something..

I dont regret for one minute being an older Dad (than normal), because life
experiences does have its advantages, but boy do I wish I went through this
experience many years earlier - to only have enjoyed it for much longer.

...ëîåï

... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!!...Tension breaker, had to be done.
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