This is gonna make me sound petty, but up to last year, I took my wife’s calling me Papa as a micro-aggression. Like my soul would flinch. I didn’t want to just be known as a daddy.

I think a positive change is that I have been very proactive in decluttering my belongings these days. I find that just having less things to cloud my senses indirectly gives me more energy for parenting (and to deal with my children’s mess haha)