The Parenting Panel with Amelia’s Dream
1. How many children do you have? And what are their ages?
One, Adam. He is 13 years old.
2. Did you have fears or concerns about how becoming a parent would interfere with your artistic endeavors? Have those fears come true, or no?
Yes. Some ways, yes. We performed out dramatically less and took time off from art, but in someways it helped focus us on our priorities in life , even in music.
3.What has parenthood taught you about yourself, your music, or your creative process?
To be more empathetic and how important creativity is to the soul of human beings especially us we will be writing music as little old people regardless of what is going on. It’s in our DNA.
4. How do you juggle your family and your career? Who’s your support system?
We started juggling better once he was 5 years old. He. would do activities and sports and we would record music. Our family does not live near by so we were our support system with babysitters.
5. Has the pandemic taken away or added to your creative flow? Are you taking good care of yourself these days?
The pandemic actually allowed us to focus a lot of time on creativity. We dropped a new record under the Amelias Dream brand everybody’s got something 14 new songs. Amelia wrote 4 songs not included all based on pandemic. One we included 6ft away. We try hard to take care of ourselves. Still try to keep active while being safe.
6. What’s one thing you wish someone had told you before you became a parent? Any advice for others?
I always tell future moms pregnancy is 10 months not 9 months and get support during delivery doula or something it was more painful than I expected Aldo sleep when baby sleeps. Also take lots of pictures wild how quickly they grow and change in first 12 months. Also happiest baby on block book was very helpful.
7. How have you been managing parenting during the pandemic? What has been the hardest part and what is the silver lining?
Hardest part has been lack of sports because we are not comfortable with that during pandemic and it was a big part of his child hood team sports basketball specifically. We have also had to finally surrender to allowing hours of video games playing because it’s safe, and the kids do socialize while playing they speak to each other and Harold and I had to surrender to it’s a pandemic regardless of how we feel about hours in front of computer in a non pandemic moment the reality is school in 2020 was remote on computer and social is zoom on computer so if he is speaking to friends while playing any joy and social in 2020 pandemic we should be flexible. So we have explained that this is a moment in time and post pandemic back to sports and limited video time.
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