From Melanie Kite of the London Spectator: For those of us who don’t do it, parenting is a bit of a mystery. A strange, magical, glamorous mystery that we imagine is bedevilled by all sorts of complex and exciting challenges. What a mind-blowing experience it must be to manufacture another human being and steer him …
Author Archives: Theodore
Earth Mama!
A few days before Ellie was born, Tomoko’s hormones kicked into turbo and she almost-weepingly asked me what we would do if she wasn’t a good mother. What if she had post-partum depression? What if she didn’t bond? What if she didn’t really like this parenting thing? In my great wisdom, I prescribed a tall …
Foot-in-Mouth Disease
I took JP to yet another birthday party this past weekend. Must say that I enjoyed this one a great deal, not least because the parents were considerate enough to have the football games on a giant screen in the living room, and even better, they were apparently fancy liquor aficionados—I had a top-shelf brown …
The New Kid in Town
Making JP comfortable with his new sister, Ellie, is sensitive enough without the addition of divorce as a factor, but such is the nature of my life, and I’m not complaining. I’m a happily divorced man, thank you very much. But it does mean that the process of helping JP adjust to a new sibling …