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1 [1] 2 Marius Hauken 3 4 • [2]Blog 5 • [3]About 6 • [4]Made 7 • [5]Work 8 9 [paren] 10 11 Time travelling for parents 12 13 16 Jul 2024 • about 1.5 minutes reading 14 15 [parent-per] Parenthood is the ultimate paradox. Nothing is more wonderful, 16 nothing is more challenging. My third child is now 2 months old, and we’re 17 drowning in sleepless nights and endless cries where we don’t know what to do. 18 19 But I’ve found two perspective shifters that reveal the magic in the mayhem: 20 21 1. The 80-Year-Old You 22 23 Close your eyes. You’re 80. Your joints creak and your kids are grown. 24 Suddenly, you’re time travelling back to now. This moment, with a crying baby 25 and bags under your eyes. How much wouldn’t you give to be back in this exact 26 moment? 27 28 2. The Last Time Illusion 29 30 One day, you’ll pick up your child for the last time. You’ll change the last 31 diaper, give the last piggyback ride, read the last bedtime story. But this is 32 the crucial point: You will never know it’s the last time when it happens. 33 It’ll slip by, unnoticed. 34 35 Embracing the Chaos 36 37 Night wakenings have become my trigger for these perspective shifts. When the 2 38 AM cry jolts me awake, I pause and imagine my 80-year-old self, cherishing this 39 fleeting moment of midnight connection. It doesn’t magically erase the 40 exhaustion, but it does make those hushed, drowsy moments feel more meaningful. 41 42 One day, you’ll miss these endless crying sessions. You’ll long for reading 43 that same book for the 20th time. These chaotic moments are the good old days 44 in disguise. 45 46 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 47 Do you want to get an e-mail when I publish something new? 48 49 [6][ ] 50 Subscribe 51 [8]Built with ConvertKit 52 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 53 54 Related blog posts 55 56 • [9] 57 58 Kids mode for iPhone and iPad 59 60 A great tips for vacation (and frankly everyday life) is learning how 61 Guided Access makes your life easier when kids borrow your iPhone or iPad 62 [child] 63 • [10] 64 65 Why selling our car and buying a cargo bike is the best investment we've 66 ever done 67 68 Three years ago we sold our car and bought two e-bikes as a replacement. 69 Purchasing a cargo bike is by far one of the best choices we've made over 70 the last few years. 71 [cargo] 72 73 [11] 74 [noscript] 75 76 References: 77 78 [1] https://hauken.io/ 79 [2] https://hauken.io/blog/ 80 [3] https://hauken.io/about/ 81 [4] https://hauken.io/made/ 82 [5] https://hauken.io/work/ 83 [8] https://convertkit.com/features/forms?utm_campaign=poweredby&utm_content=form&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=dynamic 84 [9] https://hauken.io/kid-mode-for-ios/ 85 [10] https://hauken.io/why-selling-car-buying-bike-best-investment/ 86 [11] https://hauken.io/atom.xml