I’ve always been a visual person when it comes to learning, picking up things quicker if there is an element of physical activity. Reading to learn or remember something always was hardest for me, unless it was a book that actually interested me then it rarely stuck in my head. So for me learning was more about doing than studying, and fatherhood is definitely a learn as you go full time job.
You can read all the books you like on how to raise a baby, you can watch all the YouTube videos you want and you can listen to the parents down at the nursery till they are blue in the face, but it doesn’t change the fact that all this raising a small being is a learning curve we must handle head on with both hands and possible feet as well.
So even though she is only two weeks old, here are a few things I have learned over these fourteen days. Continue reading