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Shared parental leave; why it is important, by Jo Swinson

We’re just a few weeks away from a General Election. With that in mind, I have approached several political parties. Each has been invited to put forward a spokesperson willing to write a guest post for Dadbloguk. I’m delighted to say most have agreed to this request. The article below is the first such post.

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swearing, bad language, children
Family Life & parenting

I’m no Mary Whitehouse, but not in front of the kids, please.

I can probably say with some authority that we all swear. I’m also going to assume, because I have a lot of faith in my readers, that you do your utmost to make sure it doesn’t happen in front of your children. Even so, none of us is perfect. Even the most right thinking individual

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Two socks…and a colander

This photograph reveals a completely random parenting moment. As you can see, it is a colander containing a pair of Toddler Adams’ socks. The randomness of this collection of objects struck me as very amusing. I have no idea why she decided to take her socks off, place them in a colander and transport this

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In defence of the blended / step family

I read a fascinating post the other day on the Modern Dad Pages blog (Editor’s note: The aforementioned blog is no longer online). In the post Rod, the author, was arguing that the term blended family or step family isn’t necessary. We should, Rod stated, refer to such family units as “family”. The sentiments Rod

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Safer Sleep Week; a tribute to Lola

It’s Safer Sleep week. This is a campaign organised by a charity called the Lullaby Trust to raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the support available to families affected by it and, crucially, how to take steps to avoid it. I was honoured to be approached by the Lullaby Trust and help it

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