Speaking with new parents, you often hear phrases like: “I haven’t been to the cinema for two years”, “do it while you can”, “afterwards everything changes”. So when you have a baby is it like this? -Matteo
In the summer of ten years ago, I went to see a Britney Spears concert in Columbus, Ohio. The career of the pop princess was at its peak: I remember irresistible songs, pyrotechnic lights and impeccable choreography. But most of all, I remember the electrifying feeling of going to a concert just six days after the birth of my third child.
Me, my ex-partner and our two eldest daughters were in the United States for the birth of the little one. Tara, the woman who had given birth to our twins three years earlier, had agreed to help us again and the birth had gone very smoothly. It was by talking to her that I found out about the concert: her friend Karen had two great tickets to see Britney live, but no one to accompany her. According to Tara I had to go there, and according to my ex-partner as well: “When you have such an opportunity again! I’m with the children ”.
It was an unforgettable evening, because it convinced me that, even with three children, my social life would survive. Of course, when you become a parent, you have to work harder to go out and see friends, and you also need to find someone to help you. But resigning oneself to doing nothing more for a few years is exaggerated. When new parents tell me “we haven’t been to the cinema for two years” I still hear Britney’s notes, and I think: “You don’t know what you’re missing”.
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