Alex Payne on parenting: birthdays
His little girl is growing up quickly, but Alex Payne admits, he isn’t handling it all that well
One of the things my wife finds most irritating about me (but IÂ know she secretly loves) is my ability to get one line of a song stuck in my head and whistle it non-stop for several days. The latest couplet to get jammed on repeat is Hot Chocolate?s ?It started with a kiss. Never thought it would come to this.? If you don?t know it, have a google. It?s catchy, no"
?No!? cried Mrs P. ?Please stop. Why on earth do you keep singing that"? Which was a fair question actually, one I hadn?t really stopped to consider.
And I pondered. Why was I humming this 1982 classic"Â On peeling back the layers, I realised the answer lay with a conversation we?d had over supper last week. My daughter is about to turn seven, and I?m not sure I?m handling it very well. In my eyes, she is still our rather scrappy little first-born bundle of joy. The one that we got to kiss once, just after she was born, before she was whisked off into an incubator and up to the emergency ward. And yet now she is about to have seven candles on her birthday cake. How on earth did it come to this, you might well ask.
I have several problems with this milestone. The wife reminded me that I?d always said my daughter?s seventh birthday was the line in the sand when I?d start to feel really middle aged. It seemed so far away, and yet it is here already.
I struggle too with the fact that I have joined-u...
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