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What Does Oleksiy Kovyrin Enjoy Most With His Toddler?

Oleksiy Kovyrin tells Kirill Zubovsky that the early years of parenting were hard enough that he buried them. Asked what is most fun now that his daughter is a little older, he says he likes talking to her. There is a real human being inside that small body, and that is the interesting part.

She makes observations, she shares a feeling, and she has opinions. She will say she does not like something, or that a way of doing it is wrong. He says she has a lot of opinions now, and that watching the opinions appear is the most interesting thing in parenting for him.

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Oleksiy Kovyrin. Postpartum depression in dads. ·

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