Learner Dad: The trick to enjoying your kids is to get away from them on a regular basis

I’m keeping Sheep’s Head for myself. If I go there with any family member, it will be my wife, because that’s where we went on our first date

Sheep's Head, Co Cork.  Picture: Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

I took a day off recently. Not a day off to spend time with the kids, or catch up on things around the house, because where’s the fun in that ? Instead, myself and a buddy drove west and did a four-hour hike around the tip of the Sheep’s Head peninsula. It was one of those magic days where the light changes quickly and it feel s like you’re in a different country every 10 minutes. My friend has kids around the same age as mine, so we spent most of our time talking about anything except kids because no one wants to listen to another person banging on about their children. 

My buddy did say he’d come back again with his kids to do the hike some other day. I won’t be copying him.