I Have a Secret to Confess About My Parenting Skills

It is my belief that every parent has a secret. All parents have something that they are too scared to admit to their peers, on the basis that 95% of all parents are dreadful sneering dimwits, who live purely to berate you for raising your children incorrectly, even though their own kids all grew up to be arsonists and Tories.

But it is a new year, and it is good to be transparent, so I am going to tell you our secret. I have been keeping it from you for 49 weeks now, but screw it. OK, deep breath. Here we go. We co-sleep.

Oh, that felt good. Our son sleeps with us. He still sleeps with us, even though he is nearly a year old and already half the size of my wife. His bed is our bed, our bed is his bed, except when he starts punching me in his sleep on a work night because then the sofa bed in the spare room is my bed. And that is just how life is.

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