I’m really not a fan of the phrase Freedom Day. It strongly suggests the pandemic is over and we can all go back to living the lives we did in 2019. As anyone with any sense knows, that isn’t really the case at all. For clinically vulnerable children, so-called Freedom Day, will mean something completely
If you’ve visired Dadbloguk or looked at my social media channels recently, you may have seen me singing the praises of a free app called Readingmate. The app that was designed to encourage children to develop good reading habits and my family has been making use of it.
Birmingham: The city that gave us Cat Deeley, Cadbury’s chocolate and, erm, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath. Thanks to the University of Birmingham’s Equal Parenting Project, this fine Midlands city has also given us the Fathers in the Workplace Toolkit, a free resrource that employers can use to make their organisation more dad-friendly.
We’ve faced a small challenge over the past month or so with Izzy, our youngest daughter. She’s a very good reader, but encouraging her to read school books has been a challenge. This experience inspired me to find someone who goes out of their way to encourage children to read. I was so pleased with
I make no secret of the fact I am a hardcore rock fan (seriously, I am). Even so, I have always had a soft spot for singer songwriters. Someone who I have admired greatly over the years is Newton Faulkner, who has two platinum albums to his name. Newton has been working on a collaborative
