#181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?
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#181 Dear Baby: Am I fit to be a parent?
We remain a society obsessed with individual achievement. We equate success with elevation: “Climbing the ladder”, “Scaling my Everest”, “Being on top of the world”. Fatherhood is changing you. But if you step back, you’ll see it's changing all of us together. What might happen to a group of dads who realise they could help change each other?
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Like many of you, I was always asked that proverbial question when growing up, “So what are you going to be when you grow up, Danny?” If you answered what your parents wanted to hear, then you got all kinds of accolades, but if you said something that they didn’t approve of, you were judged and felt awful. I always got the feedback that I was good
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competitive. Few births are predictable and a good proportion don’t go exactly the way we might have hoped. A recent survey found that half of all new mothers experience regret, shame, guilt or anger after birth, mostly due to unexpected complications and lack of support. More than 70 per cent say they felt pressured to do things a certain way.