Why should dad’s play more? Put simply, play is great for us all! Playing with your child is connecting with your child, and is one of Dadvengers 10 tips on being a good dad. Making a connection builds a sense of belonging, of feeling loved, being safe and understood. It’s important for dads to play more than older generations, and…
Becoming a parent Becoming a parent is something no one can ever prepare you for. People can tell you what it’s like and the challenges you will face, but you don’t truly know until it happens. Or how a good parenting group can be essential support. As a first-time mum, I gave birth to my son in September 2019. Me…
Subjects: Happy New Year 🎊🥂 It’s the first Dad Chat of 2021 and we are in the midst of another Lockdown. The thing is there are positive ways to look at National Lockdown. As we do with all our dad chats we broke the topic into 3 questions which we posed to the live audience. The 2021 National Lockdown. We…
Dad Chats Live - All About Christmas Traditions
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With Christmas just around the corner, we’d have been nuts not to talk about what your family Christmas traditions are! Do you sit around and sing carols? Who is the chef in your house, and whats on the Christmas menu? How do you mix your traditions with other peoples in blended families? Everyone does it differently, and we wanted to…
Keeping the little ones busy at any time is hard enough, but on the run up to Christmas it can get super tricky. The festive excitement and the cold wet weather outside mean the kids are bouncing off the walls, climbing the Christmas tree and swinging from the fairy lights. That said, the dark midwinter can be the perfect time…
Christmas is fast approaching, and we love this time of year! One of our favourite things is to spend the day with our loved ones, but this year is going to be different. So we wanted to hear all about how you will be spending Christmas in Lockdown. Will you be happy that you can’t have all the family round?…
Until more recent years positive support for dads was a little bit of a taboo. Dads were less comfortable talking about needing or seeking help. Having worked as operations manager for Dad Matters a perinatal and parent/infant Mental Health project, I have experienced this first-hand. But things are changing. As part of our service, we aim to support dads to…
Dad Chats Live – 30 October 2020, Parenting Network. This week we are coming to you live from @mamashelterlondon. Mama Shelter is a brilliant, family friendly hotel, who kindly let us host Dad Chats from their space! This week, we delve into parenting network. We know that having a parenting network for support is incredibly important – that’s why we are…
Dad Chats Live – 2 October 2020 – Parent guilt. OK folks, this is a big one for all parents. The parent guilt… it can crop up at any time, no matter how well we are doing, that nagging guilt creeps in. So we opened the floor to you and asked what are the moments that have given you that…
Dad Chats Live - Discussing Men's Mental Health
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Dad Chats Live – 4th September 2020, discussing men’s mental health. This week we talked about a topic that is really important to us. A big part of what we want to do here at Dadvengers is to improve the conversation and support around men’s mental health. So we asked our community what their experiences with mental health have been….
