Some time ago I wrote this blog post about the discomfort I felt about my daughter wanting to join the Rainbows. I thought it was about time I gave you all an update. So what happened? Did I put my personal beliefs to one side and allow my daughter to join the Girl Guides?
Shared parental leave has been in place since April 2015 and new research from the charity Working Families has found that only .5% to 2% of eligible fathers have thus far made use of it. This will come of little surprise to anyone familiar with the policy. Such low take-up figures prove beyond doubt that
As a dad blogger, I notice some interesting online behaviour. One of my biggest gripes is family or parenting orientated businesses that refuse to deal with dads, choosing solely to focus on mums. That said, I’ve been doing this daddy blogging thing for three years. In that time I’ve noticed a general shift with more
Something’s been bothering me recently. It’s a little something that occurred to me a few weeks ago while taking my daughter to her weekly swimming lesson; very few boys were being taught to swim. It may just be some freaky anomaly at the pool we attend, but I noticed a chronic lack of boys. There
Us stay at home dads (SAHD) can be a misunderstood group. For whatever reason, we have, just like countless women before us, sacrificed careers to run the household and do the majority of the childcare. Sometimes we’ve done this voluntarily, sometimes circumstance, be it redundancy, relationship breakdown or some other event, has forced it upon
