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Welcome to the Hood Pt.10. How to Start Every Day

25/9/2016

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This morning, like most mornings, I was involuntarily awoken at 6am.

This isn't the first involuntary wakeup of the night, but it is the last.

​This is the one where the bundle of boy is beaming. Crawling across my head, eating keys from my bedside table, and making noises that signal a general zest for life. There is no going back to sleep from here. It is now officially daytime. I begrudgingly pull my self out of warm blanket nest. I do not share Noah's enthusiasm for 6am.

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Welcome to the Hood Pt.9. The 'S Word': 2 Truths about Sleep

18/9/2016

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Before I was a Dad, the children’s book ‘Go the F*#k to sleep’ seemed offensive at best and ludicrous at worst. Hearing Samuel L Jackson read it on YouTube may have added some extra comedic value, but I probably stuck up my nose and thought it was a ridiculous title written by a terrible parent with a heart of stone. 

Fast forward to a time when these words have left my own lips feeling more like a desperate prayer  than a satirical children’s book, and my perspective has been stretched a little. Even Psalm 137:9 looks different (the one about dashing babies heads on rocks). Ok, so that’s probably one of the most bleak reflections of humanity in all recorded literature, but I’m going to give the dude the benefit of the doubt and assume he had just been woken up for the fourteenth time in half as many hours by a nearby infant. It can make you think (and write) some crazy things.


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This is a piece of writing about the S word.



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Welcome to the Hood Pt.8. Father's Day Letter

4/9/2016

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Dear Noah,

A lot of people in this world don't have great Dads. Some are abusive. Some leave. Some are around but really not around. ​I don’t know what those things are like. Some people do have great Dads. And I am lucky to be one of them. Your Papa/My Dad, is a good man. A great Dad. 

Noah, I want to be your great Dad.  ​

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