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Dad to Dad: A Preparation

From: Eric Winick
Length: 13:46

In Fall 2009, as my wife entered the late stage of pregnancy, I asked several friends of mine who are recent or long-time dads for advice on becoming a father myself. Read the full description.

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I interviewed all six over the phone, requesting two pieces of advice, one for first time dads in general and one for me specifically. I'd worked out a precise timeline for transcription, editing, and publication of the piece.

But life doesn't happen according to your schedule.

Featuring the voices of P.J. Escobio, Tom Foley, Jeff Golick, Jason Kravits, Jeremy J. Lee, and David Markus.

From the files of Yarn AudioWorks.

P.J. Escobio is an actor and producer who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughterTom Foley is a filmmaker who lives in Marblehead, MA with his wife and son. Jeff Golick is pro-Brooklyn, pro-jazz, pro-friends, and anti-oxidant. Jeremy J. Lee lives with his wife Maggie and son Lucas in Sunnyside, NY; Lucas made his Broadway debut about a month before he took his first breath. Jason Kravits is an actor/writer/director, and especially father, living in NYC. In addition to David Markus’ work as a model for Conde Naste Traveler and the New York Times, he is a hedge fund manager, husband and father of two pretty wonderful kids, Nicholas and Nora.

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Piece Description

I interviewed all six over the phone, requesting two pieces of advice, one for first time dads in general and one for me specifically. I'd worked out a precise timeline for transcription, editing, and publication of the piece.

But life doesn't happen according to your schedule.

Featuring the voices of P.J. Escobio, Tom Foley, Jeff Golick, Jason Kravits, Jeremy J. Lee, and David Markus.

From the files of Yarn AudioWorks.

P.J. Escobio is an actor and producer who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughterTom Foley is a filmmaker who lives in Marblehead, MA with his wife and son. Jeff Golick is pro-Brooklyn, pro-jazz, pro-friends, and anti-oxidant. Jeremy J. Lee lives with his wife Maggie and son Lucas in Sunnyside, NY; Lucas made his Broadway debut about a month before he took his first breath. Jason Kravits is an actor/writer/director, and especially father, living in NYC. In addition to David Markus’ work as a model for Conde Naste Traveler and the New York Times, he is a hedge fund manager, husband and father of two pretty wonderful kids, Nicholas and Nora.

Transcript

Eric Winick: In February of 2009 my fiancée Lisa found out she was pregnant.

Tom Foley: This is Tom, Eric’s brother in law. We want to see ourselves in our children, and I think some of that is healthy, but I think one can easily go too far projecting onto their kids. That’s something you can do your entire life. And something I have to be careful about to this day with my son. It is delightful to see some qualities, whether they’re physical or how they behave, or. They’re things that you’ll see that reflect you and that reflect Lisa. And it’s a wonderful thing. But you don’t want to over-identify or project too much onto them. You need to let your son be his own person, even when he’s little.

EW: What followed the announcement of Lisa’s pregnancy was an odyssey of preparation: our wedding date, planned for the fall, was quickly moved to the spring. The middle room in our...
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