Building confidence in children is vital for their development. Doing so during the COVID-19 crisis, however, comes with challenges as parents are working from home while homeschooling and children’s other emotional needs may take priority.
A man faces a video camera and explains that his daughter is FaceTiming a boy. He has a baseball in his hands and says something about showing this “boy” what he is up against. This overprotective dad then barges into his daughter’s bedroom shouting something inaudible while waving the baseball bat around and trying to
Things you probably don’t know about me: I do a lot of jump rope exercise, or skipping to use an old fashioned phrase. I started at the very beginning of this year and discovered it was an awesome way to get an all-over cardio workout and so I’ve stuck with it. With that in mind,
Over recent weeks I think we have all faced various challenges dealing with the lockdown prompted by Coronavirus. I am delighted today to welcome psychotherapist and mental health specialist Noel McDermott back to Dadbloguk to talk about dads’ and men’s mental health during lockdown.
I am teetering on the brink of taking up ornithology. This, my friends, is what social distancing / life in lockdown has done to me. I’m finding the greatest pleasure from the simplest things and if there’s one thing I’m really enjoying, it’s birdsong and the dawn chorus.
