The truth about Dads and homeschooling during lockdown
“Yet again mothers have been set an impossible task and told it’s our fault for failing at it.”
“Yet again mothers have been set an impossible task and told it’s our fault for failing at it.”
There’s a funny story behind this photograph of a ladybird crossing. This week has been very demanding (more about that in a moment). Feeling the need to take a break from it all for an hour or so, I shut myself away and started working on a new project using Photoshop.
“Daddy get a photo of the swan,” said the children. The swan was only too happy to oblige. On seeing my camera, it waddled over to me and this was the picture I snapped.
To mark father’s Day, I thought I’d publish a special photo. Both my kids, Helen and Izzy, have been kept busy taking images for the school photography club during lockdown. Izzy has been a little obsessed with my Lensball and this is an image she took for this week’s photography club assignment.
If there’s one thing I didn’t expect the COVID-19 crisis to achieve, it was to make fathers appreciate their social connections and friendships. New research from the charity Movember, published to coincide with Father’s Day this Sunday, suggests this is exactly what has happened.