Tag: first-time father
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Fathering kids at this age doesn’t keep you young
Back in my early 30s, I was working in academia, and I had started to think more seriously about having a family of my own. Another professor, who in her 40s had adopted an infant, assured me that I had plenty of time. She also expounded on how her daughter “kept her young” and that…
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Why Now?
Why would an ol’ geezer like me become a Dad now? What was I thinking?!?!? Becoming a first-time Dad in my 40s… I had a work colleague who became a “primetime” parent in their 40s, and they told me it made them feel young. They were lying, or delusional, or maybe on some form of…