So here I am, starting a blog. Having taught about them at ACJ for a while I have finally created one for myself. With an internet connection that is barely faster than modem speed, I never thought I would start a blog. But here I am. In the same week that I have joined Facebook and created a discussion forum for a friend. Interesting, how things seem to happen in clusters.
But what does all this have to do with Daily Parenting? Well, I hope to write about what it means to be a parent - one who works from home and takes care of his one-year old daughter while his wife goes to college. Zak had asked us to start this blog a year ago, when M was born but the last year has been busy with parenting, rather than writing about it.
Parenting, I have come to realise is a Daily affair. It is unremitting. Anyone who has taken care of a child for more than the casual babysitting, will agree that if there is one thing that parenting brings with it, it is a sense of the never-ending. I don't mean the smelly diapers or the messy rooms. I mean you can cease to be a friend or even a spouse but a parent you will always be. For life. That is tremendous.
M has been a blessing. Truly. We asked for her. And we got her. To think each of us, yes you and I including, have grown up similarly, when life was truly one long ceaseless exploration. Everything is worth her curiosity. The forbidden (such as plug points) more so...The manner in which she approaches a new object: if it captures her interest, she does not grab it; on the contrary she takes her hand to it tentatively, and stops tantalizingly close to it before pulling back her hand; she smiles at the object - she knows it is not going away in a hurry; she then reaches out to hold it carefully in her hand before caressing and twirling it lovingly. Such a sight to watch. Makes me think of how adults tend to grab what they want while she savours the gap between observation and sensation.
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