Triple The Dad

Hi. I’d like to introduce myself.  I’m that Dad you are tsk-tsking at the playground as I bury my head in my phone.  I see you; and I know what you are thinking: “He’s missing all the great things his kids are doing.”  “What an uninvolved Dad.” “What if his kids need him?” Here is what you don’t know: On any given day, by 9 a.m. I’ve changed each of my triplets and fed them.  Over the first two years of their lives I changed close to 7,200 diapers and served 1,500 meals.  That is 1,500 meals per kid , or 4,300 meals in addition to those diaper changes. I spend at least an hour every day, and sometimes two or three hours, parenting my kids solo.                                                  ...