With your first kid on the way I don't know how you're going to have the time to write these unless it's a way for you to relax and you can build it into your schedule. Good luck dude. It's got all the ups and downs of being a sports fan, but you don't get that same feeling when your kid curls the stream of spit up past a bib and onto your pants.
Sleep when the baby sleeps is not great advice, no matter how much people say it. I tried to keep my wife and I doing it (because how could so many people be wrong?) and it (a) did not work and (b) made my wife frustrated that I was trying to force something that wasn't helping.
As someone who's made the decision to be a dedicated non-parent, I believe I'm free to offer advise that'll be both useless and unwelcome.
1. If they start to cry in a grocery store, leave your cart full of shit in the middle of an aisle and exit the building.
2. Don't feel the need to share your child's age in months for the first 3 years of their life. It's just odd.
3. Don't let your kid support any of the Big 6 clubs.
4. Enjoy being a giver of life, savor each moment and remember that in order to provide the best for your child, you have to give time to yourself. And your friends that don't have kids.
thinking of you with the little one on the way. also, HELLO fellow NYC Red! See you at 11th Street sometime this season? (when the little one has settled down a bit I imagine)
Best piece of advice someone gave me (really only applicable if your wife is breastfeeding). There really isn't anything you can do overnights, except sleep, so you make a deal with your wife. You're going to do your best to sleep through the night that first year (again because you can't really do anything) and then once the kid is weaned, around a year or so, you're taking kid waking up duties in perpetuity. We have a 2.5-year-old and just had our second about 4 months ago. This worked well for us, also when the 'Pool kicks off early on Saturday, you volunteer to get up with the kid. Buys you lots of cred.
With your first kid on the way I don't know how you're going to have the time to write these unless it's a way for you to relax and you can build it into your schedule. Good luck dude. It's got all the ups and downs of being a sports fan, but you don't get that same feeling when your kid curls the stream of spit up past a bib and onto your pants.
Sleep when the baby sleeps is not great advice, no matter how much people say it. I tried to keep my wife and I doing it (because how could so many people be wrong?) and it (a) did not work and (b) made my wife frustrated that I was trying to force something that wasn't helping.
As someone who's made the decision to be a dedicated non-parent, I believe I'm free to offer advise that'll be both useless and unwelcome.
1. If they start to cry in a grocery store, leave your cart full of shit in the middle of an aisle and exit the building.
2. Don't feel the need to share your child's age in months for the first 3 years of their life. It's just odd.
3. Don't let your kid support any of the Big 6 clubs.
4. Enjoy being a giver of life, savor each moment and remember that in order to provide the best for your child, you have to give time to yourself. And your friends that don't have kids.
Godspeed.
thinking of you with the little one on the way. also, HELLO fellow NYC Red! See you at 11th Street sometime this season? (when the little one has settled down a bit I imagine)
Best piece of advice someone gave me (really only applicable if your wife is breastfeeding). There really isn't anything you can do overnights, except sleep, so you make a deal with your wife. You're going to do your best to sleep through the night that first year (again because you can't really do anything) and then once the kid is weaned, around a year or so, you're taking kid waking up duties in perpetuity. We have a 2.5-year-old and just had our second about 4 months ago. This worked well for us, also when the 'Pool kicks off early on Saturday, you volunteer to get up with the kid. Buys you lots of cred.