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Thirty things you should know about being a father

Richard Glover Broadcaster and columnist September 6, 2025 — 5.30am Advertisement

Ahead of Father’s Day (it’s on Sunday – you remembered, didn’t you?), here are 30 things I’ve learnt about being a father.

Try to see things from their point of view. Credit: Jessica Shapiro

Say “yes” whenever possible, but when you say “no”, you have to stick to it.

Time behaves strangely: when standing in a corridor at three in the morning, rocking a child to sleep, an hour seems to last a decade. But then a real decade races by in what seems like an hour. That child who needed rocking is now 12, and that time in the hallway glows in the memory like treasure.

There is no waste dump a

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