How My Children Taught Me to Be a Good Parent. Teacher Ian Mucklejohn suddenly found himself in the midst of a media storm when the news broke he was to become Britain's first single father in 1999. Overnight he and his infant triplet sons made news headlines. In this book, Ian tells for the first time in a witty style the story of raising his three children over the past decade, during which he was always one hand short to hold one of the children. The boys taught him incomparable lessons about enjoying their lives and life in general, the joy of them discovering language and creativity and the rules that they had to work out as a family.