"Giving up a few (or many) things is perhaps the most obvious, fundamental rule in being an awesome dad. Without sacrificing your time, you wouldn't be able to pull off all of the other keys to becoming great. You trade in your relaxing after-work "zone-out time" for "zone-in time" with your wife and baby, but the key to giving up your time isn't as simple as just being there-- it's a matter of making yourself as involved as possible while you are there."
This is going to be a tough one for my husband. Now we have already established that he is planning to be a stay at home daddy but he is also still planning to run his business from home. While he may be able to spend more time at home, I don't know how easy it will be for him to shut his brain off and actually BE at home. He has such a hard time doing that now.
I think that if he is able to be at home mentally, he will enjoy his life much more. I think that he will have a great time tending to our baby because I think it will actually be relaxing for him. It has to be more relaxing that what he does now!
He is also an avid hunter. He usually takes quite a few hunting trips over the Winter months. He's not going to be able to take many of those this Winter! I don't know how he will handle that since hunting is really the only hobby he has. Hopefully he will be so busy with the baby that he won't notice!
My husband has also never been one to live by a routine. It's hard for us to make plans to do anything because there is always something that happens to either 1. make us late for our plans or 2. make us cancel our plans. Routines are going to be hard.
A hunting trip last year...
The only day of our lives where I had his FULL attention...
This is the first post of my new blog series on 7 Ways to be an Awesome New Dad. I hope you all enjoy it.
Next Topic: #2 Way to be an Awesome New Dad: Be Proactive
This is going to be a tough one for my husband. Now we have already established that he is planning to be a stay at home daddy but he is also still planning to run his business from home. While he may be able to spend more time at home, I don't know how easy it will be for him to shut his brain off and actually BE at home. He has such a hard time doing that now.
I think that if he is able to be at home mentally, he will enjoy his life much more. I think that he will have a great time tending to our baby because I think it will actually be relaxing for him. It has to be more relaxing that what he does now!
He is also an avid hunter. He usually takes quite a few hunting trips over the Winter months. He's not going to be able to take many of those this Winter! I don't know how he will handle that since hunting is really the only hobby he has. Hopefully he will be so busy with the baby that he won't notice!
My husband has also never been one to live by a routine. It's hard for us to make plans to do anything because there is always something that happens to either 1. make us late for our plans or 2. make us cancel our plans. Routines are going to be hard.
A hunting trip last year...
The only day of our lives where I had his FULL attention...
This is the first post of my new blog series on 7 Ways to be an Awesome New Dad. I hope you all enjoy it.
Next Topic: #2 Way to be an Awesome New Dad: Be Proactive
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