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Celebrating dads with Johnson’s Baby

  Join John in *Daddy Diaries*Meet dad John and siblings Helen and Elizabeth in *Daddy Diaries*! John shares the best things about being a dad to his lovely little girls! What are the best things about being a dad for you? Posted by JOHNSON’S baby on Thursday, July 9, 2015 Earlier this week I was

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Should we do more to consider the mental health of new fathers?

Can you get the connection between all of the following; Supergrass, Radiohead, Ride, Lewis Carroll. J.R.R. Tolkein, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Ed Milliband, Iris Murdoch, Camilla Long? All either hail from Oxford or were educated there. You can add to that list a superb but little known reggae band called Makating plus my

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Dads don’t babysit; it’s called parenting

I’ve just taken delivery of this t-shirt. It’s something of a cult item amongst us stay at home dads that’s been produced and sold by the US-Based National At Home Dad Network (NAHDN). As you can perhaps tell, the NAHDN wants to get the message across that dads don’t babysit. Unfortunately it is something I

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What’s it like, being a stay at home dad?

Read all about it! Read all about it! Yes, along with five other stay at home dads, I have today appeared in the Times magazine in a feature headlined Rise of the Alpha Dad. The feature is all about men who gave up careers to look after their children. I thought this presented me with

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Parenting advice for dads; just deliver it straight

I am about to have a rant. The subject; the approach many organisations take when providing parenting advice to dads. There’s a widespread misconception about us men. For whatever reason, authors, charities and businesses often seem to think men will only respond if the advice they’re given is “tongue in cheek”.

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