With Fathers’ Day just around the corner For The Win is talking to dads who happen to be professional athletes about the ins and outs of fatherhood. Earlier this month, Steve Nash – who spoke to us about his Showdown charity match – relayed his secrets of fatherhood.
How did you learn how to change a diaper and how would you describe changing a diaper?
Ooh. Changing a diaper is pretty easy to learn. First of all, you’ve got to just get over the fact that you’re changing someone’s poopy butt. And you obviously try as carefully as possible not to spill any poop. So when you take it off you want to get it all contained and then apply the wipes liberally and effectively and then you wrap it all up into a nice tight little poopy diaper and get rid of it. And then you put a clean one on.
Putting a diaper on a kid is trickier when the baby gets more mobile and they don’t want to sit still and then especially that age before you can talk to them when they’re not speaking yet and they’re not interested in what you’re saying to them. That’s tricky. I have a 10-month-old right now – but you get pretty dexterous and you can use your dexterity to put them down and entertain them while you’re strapping them up.
Do you think basketball skills come in handy?
There’s definitely some elements of one-on-one there, trying to read and react, I’d like to say often its more adversarial and just being able to weave and coerce that nugget is similar to trying to put a ball in the basket.
