New law students often complain about major changes in their lives: sleep deprivation, demands by professors, humiliation, and pressure. Before the semester gets too far along, let’s put things in perspective. My wife gave birth to our first child a few months ago. And the transition to law school is small potatoes compared with the transition to parenthood.
I pulled a few all-nighters in law school and in practice, but this is a whole new ballgame. My wife insists that we wake and respond to the baby immediately, so that he will learn to trust people. Sometimes, when his whine pulls me from my sleep, my first thought is, “He needs to learn from the beginning that you can’t trust anyone in this world.” I have found that if I ponder over this thought long enough, and keep my eyes closed, a second parent will likely rise to respond to his demands (which raises different questions of trust, at least between her and me).
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