HeyJaredThe Rooted Dad Letters
Letters on fatherhood, relationships, and building a more intentional, connected family life.
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5 AM yogurt (opens the original)
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It’s five in the morning. Cléo sleeps in the same room as us. She’s awake, and she’s asking for water.I give her my water bottle from the nightstand. At 5 AM, whatever she asks for, I want to get it over with as fast as possible, so she falls back asleep and we all fall back asleep.“No. I want water in a glass.”I bring her a glass. “No. I want water in a small glass.” I bring her a small glass.“I want yogurt.”For a long time, when Cléo asked for something I didn’t want to give her, I pretended I
Convenience killed family life (opens the original)
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We are in the living room, talking about winter. Where to go, which country, what to plan for the next months. Behind that conversation there is the older one, the one I keep coming back to: where do we actually live.The year worked well. We sat down at the start of it and made a calendar with festivals, friends, travels and personal projects, and most of it happened the way we planned it. So the natural question is what comes next.At some point I ask her directly. How do you see family? What do
Nothing ever swam for me (opens the original)
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Someone is finally watching Cléo, so Aurélie and I go down to a cafe. We have an hour, maybe more. We’ve been in Italy four weeks now, in a house by a lake, and with no daycare over the summer we’ve been taking turns with her, so this is the first time in a month that the two of us sit across from each other and talk about something that isn’t lunch or naps or whose turn it is.She’s been restructuring her therapy practice, trying to get clear on what she does and why and how. I’ve watched her si
The biggest mistake of your life (opens the original)
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I’m 24, home in Romania, and we’re all around the table for lunch, my parents, my two brothers, and my grandmother, still alive at the time.It took me about half a year to get to this meal, turning it over with friends, sitting with a psychologist, writing about it in my journal, running myself through the Go For It exercise until there was nothing left I wasn’t sure about.I look at them and say, ‘I’ve made a decision. I told you this when I was 15 and you said you didn’t believe me, that somebo
I was starting to prescribe (opens the original)
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At some point in the conversation I stopped sharing my stories and started giving him advice.His name is Cameron. I met him in Sweden, where I went for the Regenerative Agriculture Festival. He works as a sound technician and wants to change careers, but he doesn’t know what yet. He found out I had done something similar, so he asked me how I did it. How did I leave the military, what were the steps I took. He was interested, asking questions, engaged.And instead of asking him questions back, I
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