The moment you see your newborn child, it’s a life altering experience. It doesn’t matter if it’s baby #1, #2, #4 or #10.
What comes next is almost a fairytale window of time. Your Facebook post gets more likes than anything you have ever posted, nurses take care of your baby like he or she is the only one in the world, and you have a week’s worth of food dropped at your house.
Soon those days fade away and you’re left with another human being in the family who needs 100 times more attention than you ever will. Most days it seems as though that new life you added to your family is now a distraction from everything important to you in life. Not only do they not talk, walk or play sports, they cry, go through countless diapers and refuse to smile. It’s hard and no one tells you what it’s really like to be a father those first few months. It’s during these times though that C.S. Lewis’ quote becomes the most impactful advice a dad can hear:
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