Dad Chats Live: Talking about youth mental health. With Tuesday being Youth Mental Health Day, we wanted to talk about how we support our children to have good mental health. We talk a lot about supporting our own mental health and wellbeing, but do we have enough focus on our children’s mental wellbeing? We delved into the topic with some…
Dad Chats Live: Transitions to school or nursery. So parents, it is that time again! Our kids are going back to school, or nursery, or maybe they’re just starting out at one or the other? This can be a stressful time for us kids, with lots of anxieties bubbling up to the surface. So we wanted to delve into this…
Dad Chats Live – Equal Parental Leave. Today we were joined by Rob Simpson who works for @avivauk. Aviva have scrapped paternity leave, two weeks just aren’t enough – Aviva recognised this and have an excellent new policy. At Aviva all staff are entitled to equal parental leave when they have a child. This means that fathers can take up to…
Dad Chats Live – Talking about consent and children, This week we jumped into the topic of consent. This is something that we believe every parent should be talking to their children about. We know that some parents don’t find this topic easy to discuss, and we wanted to break through the discomfort and give some great advice on how…
Dad Chats Live – Mindfulness and mental health in our children. This week, after Simone Biles stepped out of Olympics to look after her mental wellbeing. We wanted to discuss this important topic. If you’ve been around Dadvengers before, you will know that we think mental health and wellbeing is just as important as the physical. So we were 100%…
Dad Chats Live – 23 July 202 – Food and Nutrition. OK folks, we know that feeding our kids isn’t always easy. Sometimes, they just don’t want to eat the good stuff we cook for them. Or, they decide that the toast is too toasty, the milk is too milky, tomatoes are too tomatoey… you get where we are going…
Dad Chats Live - Days Out With Dad! With special guest Susie from @wikiplacesforkids_official
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This week on Dad Chats Live we have a special guest! Talking to us about the best days out with dad for summer 2021. Susie from Wiki Places For Kids joined us to chat about the best places to take the kids this summer. And we delve into why these are Susie’s top choices. Another brilliant guest, we loved having…
Dad chats live: This week we are talking about tantrums! All our kids have them at some point – and they can be really tricky to deal with. So we delved into the topic and got some brilliant advice from our community! Hearing how different people manage tantrums was really helpful – and knowing we aren’t alone in dealing with…
Dad chats live: This week we talked about baby loss, grief and it’s affect on our mental health, with special guest Gary Anderson (@gary_secure_mind_solutions ). This is another subject that is so important to talk about, and we couldn’t have done it without our special guest. Gary talked openly about discovering his twin daughters had Twin To Twin Syndrome – a…
Dad Chats Live – as pride month comes to an end, we are joined by Kate from @lesbemums. We focused solely on the conversations this important month creates with our children. We chatted about how to talk to our children about sexual identity and gender – and when the best time is to start that conversation. Then talked about how…
