Learner Dad: 'I wanted to be a cowboy at their age'

Kids are growing up faster now, and there’s nothing wrong with that really.

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IS anyone else having trouble getting their kids to move in the morning? That first day back to school, when they woke us at 6.45 with Christmas-morning excitement, seems like a dream at this stage.

Getting them out of bed isn’t the problem. The boys get up first in our house, so my son usually shuffles in and lies on the dining-room sofa while I make the porridge. Sometimes we’ll talk about our dreams, but mainly we just savour some silence in each other’s company, as the sun comes up outside. The porridge made, the womenfolk get up and we eat breakfast together, usually in good form.