Category: Parenting
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Sometimes silver linings are actually gold
I love being a dad and having my three kids. I’m a very involved and good father, and the upside of quitting my senior corporate job last year after my marriage ended, is that I’m now far more present and active in my kids’ lives. With three major and parallel challenges in the preceding few…
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Grateful for what happened before the end
Today would have been the tenth anniversary of my now-former marriage. Ten years. A whole decade. But we didn’t make it this far; we separated last year, two months after we marked our ninth anniversary. We ended our marriage because we no longer loved each other the way we once did, and were sadder together…
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19 years ago today, my father hanged himself
Today marks 19 years since my father hanged himself. For more than half of those years, I hated him. Intensely. Fiercely. But now, having been right to the same metaphorical ledge he stood on (but stepped back and resolved never to get there again), I feel desperately sad for him. I miss him. And I…
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Humpty Dumpty Daddy in Adelaide & Melbourne
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Yet another father kills themselves and leaves their kids behind
I was heartbroken to read this week that former Wallabies player Dan Vickerman had committed suicide. He was just 37 and leaves behind a wife and two sons. Awful, terrible, tragic, and all the other words of morosity. BeyondBlue, Australia’s national depression and anxiety initiative, says of the 2,500 suicides each year in Australia, 75%…
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My 2016
This has been a year of immense change, huge challenge, and enormous self-discovery. It’s been a dangerously tough year, but ultimately a seminal period of my life. The life I had when I began 2016 has almost completely changed – much of it is in fact gone. This year ends with me leading a very…
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JC @ Bazaar Tales, 5 Sept 2016
Here’s a recording of me giving a 10min preview of ‘Humpty Dumpty Daddy’ at Melbourne’s monthly night Bazaar Tales storytelling on 5/9/16. Being the day after Fathers Day, this month’s theme was ‘Dads’. Apt and fortuitous. My enormous gratitude to Cathy Culliver for allowing me the stage time, and also to the audience who were…
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Shit parents fail to declare child’s gender in #socialmedia accounts
At the time when they should be enjoying their happiest moment, new parents Jamie and Kim Androgini fear they have set up their child Kelly for a lifetime of ridicule. Like many others, the Androginis failed to register the social media accounts for Kelly with a gender-specific salutation. “It’s just so hard to keep up…
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There’s no dignity in parenting
Life changes dramatically when you have kids. As it should, I guess. But I wasn’t ready for the sudden loss of dignity. And to be honest, how little I cared about losing it. My firstborn was delivered unto us via an emergency caesarean. He was ten days past due and just too damn cosy. In…