Vaderskap het \u2019n nuwe lig gebring in die lewe van die bekroonde joernalis Ivor Price. In sy suksesvolle loopbaan het hy al baie rolle aangeneem, onder meer radio-omroeper en televisie-aanbieder, maar niks kan vergelyk word met sy rol as pappa nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price, wat deesdae die Paarl sy tuisdorp noem, vertel hy het reeds in sy vroe\u00eb twintigs besluit hy wil \u2019n pa wees en wil \u2019n kind aanneem, maar sy werkprogram het dit ongelukkig nie toegelaat nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twee jaar gelede, met sy 40ste verjaarsdag en die begin van die koronavirus-pandemie, het Price vir homself ges\u00ea dit is nou of nooit en die aannemingsproses aan die gang gesit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy wou nie die proses langer uitstel nie en wil ook nog die beste jare van homself vir sy kind gee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie aannemingsproses was nogal intens. Dit voel of elke deel van jou lewe oopgevlek word \u2013 van jou geldsake tot jou geestesgesondheid. Maar noudat ek daarop terugkyk, is alles in minder as \u2019n jaar afgehandel, wat eintlik heel redelik is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was liefde met die eerste oogopslag toe hy sy seun die eerste keer sien. N\u00e1 hul eerste ontmoeting glo Price vasbeslote dat sy seuntjie eerder hom as sy pa gekies het \u2013 op \u2019n geestelike vlak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVan die eerste oomblik af het dit gevoel of ek hom nog altyd ken; of sy babalyfie gemaak is om in hierdie pappa se arms te l\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het grootoog na my gekyk en geglimlag, asof hy wou s\u00ea: \u2018Pappa, ek het jou gevind.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dis nie altyd dat \u2019n mens hoor van \u2019n man wat alleen \u2019n kind grootmaak of aanneem nie, maar Price voel dit maak hom nie juis besonders nie. Hy s\u00ea daar is hordes vroue wat elke dag die taak as enkelouer aanpak en nie \u2019n medalje daarvoor kry nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was nogal bevoorreg om voor die tyd \u2019n paar ouerskapklasse te loop, wat my op van die praktiese dinge voorberei het. Maar die feit dat ek \u2019n enkelpa is, is eintlik nie spesiaal nie \u2013 soveel vroue in ons land maak tog elke dag alleen kinders groot sonder om \u2019n medalje daarvoor te verwag. Ons het ons ritme gevind, maar dit bly uitdagend om die perfekte balans tussen werk en my gesinslewe te vind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price s\u00ea dit is nie \u2019n geheim dat daar baie afvlerkmans in Suid-Afrika is wat nie pa staan vir hul kinders nie. Hy meen die afwesigheid van pa\u2019s in hul kinders se lewe het \u2019n hele \u201crits negatiewe gevolge\u201d op die kinders se lewe. In dieselfde asem moedig Price ook mans, wat wel kinders het, aan om beter te doen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As daar mans is wat ook die begeerte het om alleen \u2019n kindjie aan te neem, moet die besluit uit die hart kom, voel Price. Hy beklemtoon dat dit nie \u2019n maklike taak is om \u2019n kind alleen groot te maak nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOm \u2019n enkelouer te wees, sit nie in enigeen se broek nie. Dis besonder uitdagend. As jy nie doodseker is dat jy jou kind elke dag vir die res van jou lewe eerste kan stel nie, moet jy dit eerder nie doen nie. Ouerskap is \u2019n goddelike geskenk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price doen ook alles self wanneer dit kom by bottels maak, doeke ruil en laatnagte regop sit wanneer die kleintjie wakker is. Om laat te slaap, is ook verby, want hy moet douvoordag opstaan en sy seuntjie regkry vir dagsorg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is wel gese\u00ebnd met ongelooflike ondersteuning van familie en vriende. My ouers slaap elke nou en dan by my huis oor wanneer ek vinnig vir \u2019n dag of wat moet reis, en my vriende bederf my seun tot in die afgrond in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vaderskap het \u2019n algehele ommeswaai in sy daaglikse lewe veroorsaak \u2013 van sy werkroetine tot sy sosiale lewe. Elke besluit wat hy nou maak, is met sy seuntjie as sy eerste prioriteit in gedagte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Price se woorde is vol liefde en trots wanneer hy spoggerig van sy seuntjie praat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy word later in Junie al 11 maande, en hy is ver vooruit met al sy mylpale. Hy\u2019t al op agt en \u2019n half maande begin stap en babbel onophoudelik. Dit voel of ek uitgekies is om greatness<\/span> groot te maak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n As daar een groot les is wat vaderskap Price kom leer het, is dit die belangrikheid om na jouself om te sien. Hy s\u00ea: \u201cAs jy nie na jou geestelike, gemoeds- en fisieke gesondheid omsien nie, sal jou kinders nie jou beste kry nie. En hulle sal nie \u2019n voorbeeld h\u00ea van hoe om dit self te doen nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hoewel hy nie iemand is wat \u2019n groot bohaai maak oor spesiale dae soos Valentynsdag of selfs Kersdag nie, kyk Price vanjaar self op Vadersdag met nuwe o\u00eb en met nuwe respek na sy eie pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy pa was nog altyd my held. Hy praat net wanneer dit nodig is, en is \u2019n uitsonderlike rolmodel van hoe \u2019n man met sy kinders te werk behoort te gaan. 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