Tip 79: 1 way to put your baby to sleep

I have always been doing this but did not realize its a trademark daddy thing that got many mummies jealous of me. I was in the playcenter on a Saturday with Haruka. After lunch with Tomomi, I gave her a break to go to the bookshop or to do some shopping while I took Haruka to the playcenter. This is a government playcenter and its only 2000 yen (USD$20) fee annually since its heavily subsidised, but the parent can not leave the place but must be there with the child at the playcenter. After Haruka played for 2 hours, she got grouchy and I carried her and within 5 minutes, she slept on my arm. I took her to the bed at the playcenter room, put her down on the bed and she cried missing daddy's strong warm arms. The mummies watched me as I found a soft toy as padding for Haruka's head and made her comfortable. Then, with my index finger, I made circular motions on her head and within 5 seconds, her crying tapered off and she slept! All mummies around were surprised! That was 1 day of fame of a daddy magician trick. Interestingly no other mummy knew about this tip. Have you tried this?

That story did not end there. I went home and forgot about it. But Tomomi went to the playcenter on Tuesday and the mummies told her what a dedicated and caring daddy that I am with such special skills. It probably put a tear on Tomomi as she was extra kind to me for the next few days, cooking good meals and other things and being extra gentle and nice. :) So, that's a bonus tip here - do some special contribution without intentions of magnifying it, but if its in the presence of mummies who would get impressed, they would tell your wife about it sincerely. And that's going to reward you handsomely more than any rose in the world. Apparently, Japanese daddies are afraid of babies, thinking they would hurt the small child and leave all the babysitting work to mummies. So the act of knowing how to make the baby sleep is a rare magician trick.

Daddies, any more magician tricks to share? We need more of this to save on roses.