It Shifts Your Focus
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Your focus may shift in parenthood, but that’s what’s meant to happen.
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| 1:57.3 | It shifts your focus. It really shouldn't surprise us, but for some reason it always does. |
| 2:04.0 | An actor, an artist, a writer has kids and their work changes. As fans, this might be disappointing, |
| 2:09.0 | but as humans, it's kind of strange that it upsets or confuses us. Didn't having kids change what |
| 2:15.6 | you were interested in, what you spent your time thinking about, |
| 2:18.4 | what you spent your time working on? |
| 2:20.7 | The filmmaker Cameron Crowe was recently asked by the New York Times what happened to him, |
| 2:24.7 | which is honestly a rather rude question. |
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