Education
Running in the dads’ race
“Win the dads’ race or I will eat your head.” With these words, my daughter persuaded me to enter the dads’ race at her school sports day.
June 19, 2019
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Fatherhood
Happy Father’s Day
If you are a regular visitor to Dadbloguk, you’ll be aware that at weekends I very often publish blog posts related to photography, my favourite pastime when I get a few spare minutes. I may spend ages coming up with an idea, shooting the image and editing it before posting it to the blog. Well,
June 16, 2019
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Fifty minutes to change the world: State of the World’s fathers Report 2019
If men and women are to equally share childcare responsibilities, men need to do more of it. To be more precise, men need to do an additional 50 minutes each day while women should do 50 minutes less. This is the simple conclusion of the latest State of the World’s Fathers Report, published to coincide
June 14, 2019
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Fatherhood
an involved father does more than change nappies
“Oh no, it’s worse than I thought.” This was my reaction to a newspaper article I read about Prince Harry. What was so bad about this article? It confirmed Prince Harry was an involved father because had been changing baby Archie’s nappies. More than that, he was called a “model new father” and this is
May 14, 2019
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Book reviews
Dads Don’t Babysit, Towards Equal Parenting: the book that almost never was
Why don’t most men have as much to do with their children as their female partners? Why is parenting often seen as women’s work as opposed to something shared equally between both parents? These and other questions are tackled in the recently published book Dads Don’t Babysit, Towards Equal Parenting.
May 7, 2019
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