thoughts on fatherhood / motherhood from LTYF podcast

“I think the most distinctive thing that will mark your journey is the nature of your child. I have given birth to two very different humans. The release from the nest of my eldest to the release of my youngest will be two very different things. And they'll look different.

They'll be timed differently. It'll be different natures because they are

Our children don't listen to us.

Hell no. They watch. True. Depending on your approach to parenting, you constantly having to act and operate a certain way if you want your children to follow kind of those principles and that way of living. And it's exactly that our children are old enough to not be distracted by an ice cream.

They can see you and

“It was quite an emotional and impulsive decision not long after Charlie was born, and I almost resented it for a few years there, you know. There was a bit of pain involved that so much of my identity and freedom got quite locked down in the role of motherhood and I had to reinvent myself. I never resented the role. I think motherhood was the

“I consider myself or I think what I'm projecting to my kids is a liberal father. I want to come across as somebody who's approachable to them. I enjoy having them talk to me about whatever they're going through.

And I think I've kind of created the kind of environment that…. they may have their own inhibitions or whatever, but they know they can