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MY WIFE HAS NO INTEREST IN SPORT, none at all. Which is one of the reasons I love her. No one wants to come home after a day of talking about the offside rule to strike up a conversation on the same subject. I like to think she’s secretly proud of what I do, it’s just that she hides it very well. I recently overheard her telling someone “all he does is talk about hairy men playing catch”. But her disinterest in the back pages perhaps also explains her lack of timing; an inability to sense ‘the moment.’ Let me rewind to the night I tried to propose. It was a glorious evening in Franschhoek, the perfect dinner at Reuben’s. With the ring burning a hole in my pocket, we opted for the gourmet taster menu; six courses with accompanying wines. Four courses (and glasses) in, she’d lost all basic communication skills. Using the ’timing is everything’ rule, I aborted the knee-drop and performed a disillusioned flyby. It is never the right moment if your fiancé-to-be is the one who has slumped to her knees before you. She has form, too, when it comes to delivering news such as the phone call to tell me that I was going to be a father for the first time: one minute before I went live on air on Sky Sports News. I will agree that it helped create extraordinary emotion to the opening of the show - elation, fear, exhilaration and relief all combined with Jose Mourinho’s transfer dealings. I’m not sure football updates have ever been delivered with such manic facial expressions. Whatever it is that makes my wife tick (excuse the pun), the genes are present in our daughter. How else can you explain her arrival at 29 weeks weighing just under 2lbs? The doctors didn’t have a better answer. I remember I was looking in the fridge for something to eat when the wife rang saying
FATH ER OF T WO AN D SK Y SPORTS. PR E SENTER ALE X PAYN E GIVE S HIS ACCOU NT OF COPING WITH AN E AR LY AR RIVAL. that things weren’t right. For all the times I’m told my job is an inconvenience apparently I’m at home too much during the week and away too much at the weekend (when I'm presenting) - I’ll always be grateful that the only thing in my diary for that day was a morning watching Bargain Hunt. I like to think of it as being in the right place at the right time. So the wife went from a legal breakfast meeting at the Wolseley to having our little one in the prem unit by lunchtime. And for a while time stood still. It is funny the things that stand out now
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- the regular ‘bings’ of the machines, sobbing uncontrollably on the phone to the boss as I explained I wouldn’t be in for a while, the constant hand washing, the kangaroo care. The pride when her oxygen level reached the perfect 100, the fear when changing her first few nappies, the wrench when we were sent home at 9pm every night. And in the first few weeks, the drive into the hospital in the early hours to place our test tubes of precious milk in the fridge next to the beer barrels of breast milk the other mothers were producing. Although she was the newborn, I’m not sure I’ve ever grown up so quickly. It was the perspective shift that was most noticeable, as all the irrelevant aims and desires that I had for her in the run up to her arrival disappeared in a flash. Suddenly prodigious talent and endless career opportunities seemed rather less important than keeping her breathing and eating. But time was the proverbial healer, and having been enveloped by the quite brilliant protective bubble of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, we came home after two months, with Little M weighing a bulky 5lbs. And, aside from reflux, haemangiomas, dairy allergies, a bent foot, an impacted gut and other bits and bobs, it all became fairly normal fairly quickly. We just started racing from the pit lane rather than the start line. The clock started again, we picked up speed and left all the stresses and concerns behind - to the point that we decided to double
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the fun. Getting going with number two was understandably a fairly fraught experience. With no explanation for Little M’s early kick off, we trod fairly carefully. Time rather slowed down again, as the wife was ordered to bed from four months onwards and we just quietly hibernated during the summer. I watched every minute of the London Olympics, pausing only to run cups of tea upstairs (attempting to break the world record with every effort). Inevitably, there was the odd drama, including the occasion I rushed out of studio before a match and raced the familiar route to the hospital. The
wife feared she was having a miscarriage, and I just remember how grey everything went; the familiarity of the wires and beeps. And how an 18 month old is completely unaware of the anxiety that surrounds her. After about three hours the doctor’s prodding and pushing deflated the situation, quite literally. Trapped wind. And suddenly it was the game of the season. The boy was much more simple (like his father), arriving with perfect timing and in the process fuelling my hopes of an opening batsman. Perhaps the perspective hasn’t shifted that far after all. And now we’re motoring along again, though with this
rather inverted home life of a family week and a working weekend. But through this unconventional lifestyle I’ve eavesdropped on more coffee mornings, watched more swimming lessons and attended more ballet classes than most fathers. And it’s only just begun. I’m a Daddy first and a nanny second; a Danny or a Naddy if you will. I have seen the other side, and now it is time to reveal all for the benefit of those men who have proper jobs. Having said that, not for a minute would I change being a Naddy. Given where we’ve been and where we’re going – and to tweak that old sporting cliché – it’s all about timing.
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the supermarket and hiding the golden syrup under the table at breakfast time, so he couldn’t see what I was dolloping all over my porridge. As a first time mum, I felt it was my maternal obligation to nourish his body and brain to the best of my capability. As well as feeding him only organic foods, this also involved chauffeuring him around half of Surrey. Maternity leave? My diary had never been so full. We did everything from baby swimming to baby massage, singing, dancing, rhythm and rhyme. You name it, we tried it. If there was toddler Japanese, I probably would have signed him up. He hated the swimming (so did I, largely on account of having to wear a swimsuit that no longer really fitted.) As for baby massage, that had to be performed nappy-free, which J took as an opportunity to empty his bowels I give it to her all the time, she certainly all over my jeans. Music wasn’t really his doesn’t eat it as often as I do (that really would be an offence) but there are times when thing either and despite my best efforts, he never really progressed beyond chewing the it’s just easier to give in. I wasn’t always so instruments into ‘playing’ them. Still, I lax, but after three children my principles, persisted with our extracurricular activities like my stomach muscles, are somewhat in case there were any special gifts or talents weaker than they used to be. lurking beneath his squidgy pink babyness. When J was born seven years ago, I was As for TV, that was banned until he was at determined to be the ‘perfect mother.’ I vowed never to feed him anything that came least old enough for Blue Peter. Along with chocolate of course. out of a jar and went to frankly ridiculous Roll forward three years to the arrival of lengths to ensure that not so much as a grain D and my standards began to slip. Suddenly, of sodium or molecule of sugar, ever passed CBeebies became a blessing, rather than a his lips. This included making miniscule loaves of salt free bread (which never rose) to guilt trip. Pushy parent classes were replaced with toddler groups where no-one cared if avoid giving him the toxic stuff they sold in
Wotsits in their faces. Meanwhile, my eight-toothed one-yearold is triumphantly sucking a chocolate finger. I can feel the disapproving glances without even looking. I might as well scrawl "bad mother" on my forehead in chocolate spread. I’m not sure what’s worse; the fact that Baby A recognises chocolate at such a delicate age. Or the fact that I *gasp* allow her to eat it. Just to be clear here: it’s not like
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one of D’s nursery friends, when Baby A decides to show off her range of newly acquired vocabulary. Before you see this as one of those veiled attempts at stealth boasting, best known to Facebook, I should probably point out that Baby A’s vocabulary is not something most parents would be proud of. There’s b-cock (broccoli) yog-cock (yoghurt) and cocks (socks). But today, at a party where I barely know anyone, the word that comes out of my daughter’s mouth is simply: ‘cock.’ A few mums swivel round. I jiggle Baby A on my knee a bit and try to appease her with a breadstick. But she’s having none of it. ‘Cock,’ she repeats. ‘Cock, cock, cock’ with rising decibels. Now everyone is looking. I can tell they’re wondering if this is a word she’s picked up from me. Am I more slummy mummy, than yummy mummy? Before anyone can jump to conclusions, I interject. ‘You mean chocolate, darling,’ I sigh, pointing at the chocolate fingers, then quickly re-positioning them out of sight. My daughter’s face crumples, then turns red. ‘COOOOCK,’ she screams. I whip the chocolate fingers back and slip one into her trembling hand. She is instantly cheered up and shoves two thirds of it into her desperate little mouth. At least it prevents her screaming expletives. Most of the other mums return to fussing over their four year olds, trying to encourage them to try a carrot stick, rather than just shoving handfuls of
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These days a successful morning is one where we ALL leave the house with teeth and hair brushed. things have changed. The strive for perfection is a thing of the past. These days a successful morning is one where we all leave the house with teeth and hair brushed. Baby A’s greatest achievement is probably that she recognises the theme tune to Peppa Pig and snorts whenever she hears it. As for aspirational activities, or even toddler groups, the last thing I want to do on a rare morning when I don’t have anything else to do, is be surrounded by other people’s offspring. I’ve finally realised it’s ok to spend time with your own kids, on your own. And that just because they’re not being subjected to highbrow infant edification, doesn’t mean they’re not developing. I’ve also realised the occasional chocolate coated snack is probably not going to do any major damage. Shoddy parenting, or self-preservation? For me, there is only one way to handle three children and stay sane - and that is to lower your standards. I prefer to think of it as a more laid back, less neurotic approach. And hey, they’re all happy, healthy kids. Meanwhile, back at the party Baby A has finished her chocolate finger and is demanding another one, while smearing her hands over my boobs. ‘Cock, cock, cock.’ ‘Oh, go on then,’ I say, reaching for the dish. Her melted chocolate smile melts my heart and I help myself to a couple too. Well, if she’s having one. LL
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Yorkshire. “Camps by the river give boys the time and freedom to build dens and rafts – not forgetting wild swimming,” says housemaster Paul Barlow. “The boys are always to be seen outside.” It’s a similar story at Aldro in Surrey. Just 45 minutes from central London, it gives pupils free-range fun with its very own lake, complete with rowing boat and island tree house – connected to the “mainland” by a rope bridge. “The boys love the bridge because there’s always the chance they might fall off,” says headmaster David Aston, who also runs “Escape from Colditz” nights – a favourite with boarders, who must elude staff searchlights in the grounds to win. “Children need challenge and excitement,” says psychologist Jennie Lindon. “If their play environment is made safe and sanitised, they will either slump into uninspired and repetitive play or find some way to spice it up.” All too aware of this, Windermere Prep in Cumbria has “Adventure!”
sessions on its weekly timetable. Children regularly set off from the school’s own lakeside watersports centre to sail or canoe – and they can also take up climbing, orienteering and a host of other challenging activities nearby. It’s no surprise that, by the end of Year Six, most of them have reached impressive levels of capability. But outdoor adventure for prep school pupils is about a lot more than just having fun. “It can boost their self-confidence and this can have a positive impact on their academic life,” says Aston. “Giving children the freedom and time to play together, in wild and open spaces, is critical to all aspects of development and learning,” adds Barlow. “The outdoor classroom is unique: no walls, no boundaries, no bells – an endless horizon of opportunity.” Prior Park in Wiltshire has taken this a step further. “Large amounts of the curriculum are learnt outdoors,” says headmaster Mark Pearce. “This creates opportunities for children to develop a wider understanding of their capabilities and to extend the skills they have learnt in the classroom.” Enabling them to do this is the school’s £14,000 outdoor classroom, including a wild meadow, pond, footpath and forest. It’s also used for good old-fashioned fun, such as making mud-men, building fires and roasting apples. Peter Dix, former education correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, endorses this outdoor approach to education. “Children who do not
❝ If a child’s play environment is made safe and sanitised they will slump into repetitive play ❞ respond well to conventional teaching and learning in the classroom often do so with striking success when outdoors.” Pupils at Beeston Hall in Norfolk are used to putting this theory to the test. They make the most of the nearby coast, not just for running free with friends or the headmaster’s dog, but also for geography lessons that come to life when transported from whiteboard to beach. “The children spend more time outside a classroom than inside one in any given day,” says headmaster Robin Gainher. It can also be animals that draw children to the freedom of the fresh air – not least at Hanford, where girls can hop on the saddle to ride Gus, Rosie, Acorn or another of the school’s many ponies. Or they can take Nonsense, Stanley and Doodah the dogs for a muddy walk round the grounds. But often they will just be found inventing their own outside fun, sometimes in the company of the school’s chickens – all as free-range as the girls themselves. “Children quickly learn to play their own games without the need for constant adult encouragement or direction,” says Nigel Mackay. And that’s just what prep schools need to preserve.
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