People tell me that parenthood is a life-changing experience. I don’t think I doubted that, but it did not exactly change my life the way I thought it would have — at least not yet.<\/p>\n
It is certainly tough caring for a newborn since the usual sleep\/eat\/poop cycle is approximately bi-hourly. I am not the type who can nap; I will wake up from a short nap feeling terrible. I cover night duties, so as a result I do not sleep until day break. If I am lucky, I get to sleep at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
I end up sleeping very little each day. But just being tired is not what I would call life-changing. I have certainly been through times where I slept very little. Like going to Army\/BMT, the time comes and you suck it up.<\/p>\n
Before the baby, most of my nights were spent working late, having dinner with friends, watching TV, busybody-ing on social media, etc. The arrival of baby meant I had to be home early and stay home for most parts of the evening. There’s only so much TV and social media I can feed on before I get bored, so I decided to spend my waking moments learning new things.<\/p>\n
During my army days, I spent free time reading books\/online articles or creating stuff — software, music scores, etc. I learned a lot.<\/p>\n
So over the past month I started making a list of things I wanted to try\/learn, and attempted them one by one. Baby time is great for reading or watching training videos because my hands are usually busy carrying or feeding the baby.<\/p>\n
Some of these action items actually required money, i.e. I had to buy\/pay for stuff, and that was the biggest difference from my army days when I was broke.<\/p>\n
Money probably made some of those things easier\/faster; but irregardless, I believe progress can still be made.<\/p>\n
Social time can really dilute you. I probably learned more (apart from parenting) in the last month than I have in the entire of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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