This year reality struck and I was reminded how much I still need to do, how much my inner child still needs attention, and how easy it seems to leave past wounds unattended and push problems aside when you live a busy life, trying to meet everybody else´s needs, especially my kids.Īt the beginning of last year, my father died. It’s like looking into the mirror after a sleepless night, expecting to still look awesome. All sorted then?īang! The truth can sometimes feel so much harder and more painful than we think. I did a lot of research, published a book on fatherhood and my wife and I have spent a lot of time reflecting on childhood, schooling, parenting and life. I love being a father and I’ve been supporting other fathers and men for more than 12 years. Normally, I would say that I’m a quite balanced, patient and easy-going dad and man.
I feel like a bystander at a party, where everyone is having fun but me. Paralysed I just stand there, watching the scenery. My nine-year-old sits on the sofa and calls me for the twentieth time to read him his Asterix-comic. At the same time my six-year-old is creating a big mess on the kitchen table when he spreads playdough literally everywhere, including into the food I’ve just prepared. She dances with the socks through the living room, throws them in the air and giggles “no socks, no socks, no socks”.
Come on!” (my voice gets louder and more impatient). “Look, I really think you should wear those socks. “Honey, it’s cold, keep them on!!” She takes them off and grins. His observations of the way the world turns are refreshing and inspiring in turn.“Please keep the socks on!” She takes them off. These are the stories of his discoveries, his homeschool adventures and touching relationships. Wickham has a refreshing take on life, seeing the connectedness in all things, their beauty and their fragility. Wickham is a boy who stands tall where it counts. Fields said, It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. His ever-loving Meema and Papa, and their plans of Great Escape, his strident older sister Miss Salt, expectations of a younger sibling Bubba Boo, and best friend Hes a girl struggling with her own identity in a world of labels and conformity.
Encounter his thirst for knowledge about who, and why, and what the world is, and how he is to take his place in it. A gentle-giant nature boy, raised consciously and living compassionately in an alternative lifestyle. Wickham Mossrite is a reluctant hero for the Natural Parenting generation.
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