Single Parent Dad

We spent more than a reasonable part of the Christmas and New Year holidays encouraging one child to kick and punch another.
We aren’t psychopaths, or crazy, instead we’re having ababy and aiming to help our older child bond with our baby bump and become a big brother....

We’re having a baby.
And part of our plan to ready our 12 year-old son to be a big brother, we are involving him as much as we can in the preparations for Baby Newbold.
Which is why we took him along to a recent personal shopping session with Mamas & Papas.  What else are the school holidays for, if not to make your children useful?...

If you missed it, we’re expecting a baby in April 2017.
And when you make a new baby, we shouldn’t forget we make things of other people too.
We turn parents into grandparents, brothers into uncles, sisters into aunties, nieces and nephews into cousins and of course, friends into baby sitters....

A pregnancy announcement should be something of immense joy, a declaration of love that cements a relationship, grows a family and brings more love into that family and the wider world.
Our announcement contains all of those things.
But it also contains plenty of anxiety, and a little reluctance to look too far ahead....