Babies Get All The Attention
as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine RaisingDad by Jim and Henry Duchene Babies Get All The Attention “I love kids. I used to be one myself.” My granddaughter is about to become a big sister. The first six years of her life she yearned for a sibling to play with. Her seventh? Not so much. “I thought you wanted a little brother or sister?” her mother, my middle daughter, asked when my granddaughter's response was less than enthusiastic. “That was before I knew babies get all the attention,” she groused. And that’s true. My youngest daughter always teases me about the day my granddaughter was born. Until then, she had been the baby of the family. We took her older sister to the hospital at FOUR in the morning. Two hours later, my youngest was starving . Unfortunately for her, six was when her sister’s cesarian was scheduled, so breakfast could be a matter of m...