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Welcome to the Hood Pt. 12 - Banging Out a New Beat When Imagination Has Been Drummed Out of You

13/11/2016

 
So, it’s been one whole year now, doing this Dad thing.

I guess you could say, in ‘Dad years’, I’m still a baby. But I’m starting to crawl pretty quick and learning lots of new sounds.

The brain of my one-year-old boy is so flexible, malleable, open. He is learning from every surface, every texture, every sound, every moment. And I’m trying to do the same as a parent. To learn from every cry, every babble, every mess, every bath, every twinkle and tear in little eye, every movement of little hand, every ripple of little laughter. I’m trying to be flexible, malleable, open. 

This isn’t always easy or natural. 

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