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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…

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Positive Support for Dads - The Secrets you Didn't Know

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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…
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Is there a secret to Dads and the Work-Life Balance

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Before Coronavirus Pandemic At the start of the year I wasn’t worried about Dads and the Work-Life Balance. It was all hustle, work hard and always be on the grind. That’s the mentality I started out with stepping into the professional world of work. Becoming a stepdad certainly refuelled “the success at all costs” mindset as I was navigating the…
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Helpful First Aid Tips for Dads that care

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Over the past several years, the vast majority of the people who have attended my paediatric first aid courses have been women.  This has always baffled me as fathers, grandads, uncles, brothers and indeed all males around children need to know what to do if a child in their care needs emergency assistance. As parents we would do anything to…
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Dad Chats Live - Post Lockdown Anxieties

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Dad Chats Live – 21 August 2020, Post Lockdown Anxieties.   A friday night can only mean one thing at Dadvengers – Dad Chats Live! But this week the technology wasn’t on our side, so the chat was held on Nigel’s Instagram page instead. But don’t worry, the link below will still take you straight to the chat. So with…
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Parent Separation and Keeping Kids Best Interests at Heart

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Parent separation is an important subject that is discussed lots with the rise of the modern family. You can google and read about parent’s divorce or separation until the cows come home. You will find lots of useful information about doing what is best for your child/children with regards contact arrangements and maintenance payments. But what you don’t see much,…
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Being Supportive During the Transition to School or Nursery

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Your baby is finally going to school or nursery You’ve bumbled through the first 36 months and somehow your child seems to be adjusting well to living in this world with you as a parent. You’ve navigated sleepless nights, weaning, teething, crawling, walking, the terrible twos, potty training and more. Now…supposedly… you’ve got to pack your little one off for…