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: 13 November 2020 – Keeping our kids entertained. Keeping our kids entertained can be difficult! There are so many hours in the day, and with the amount of time we’ve been forced to spend at home in the last year, sometimes we struggled with running out of ideas! So this week we asked our team how they…
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…
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…
Subjects: Dad Chats 6 month celebration! That’s right folks – Dad Chats is 6 months old today! From the first chat Nigel hosted we knew we were onto something special here. Giving dads a community to reach out to for support, to turn to when we need a laugh, and to cry with when things get hard. We weren’t sure…
Topics covered: As this month is Black History month we wanted to include the topic in one of our chats. So this week we talked about educating our kids about diversity. An important chat that touches on what some people find a difficult subject! The three topics were: 1. How and why we should teach our children about diversity. And…
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…
Dad Chats Live – 25 September 2020, Baby changing facilities for men. Despite it being 2020, and there many a huge amount of hands on fathers in the UK, there is still al lack of baby changing facilities for men. Many places only have baby changing in the ladies bathrooms – this isn’t ok! How are dads meant to be…
Dad Chats Live – 18 September 2020: talking about approaching grief with children, crying in front of your kids and your dream man cave?! Grief is something that will impact all of our lives, and no matter how much we want to protect our children from that, it will impact them to. So this week we chatted about approaching grief…
Dad Chats Live – 12 September 2020. Talking about parental life lessons, curling parents, and dad computer games. This week we delved into the life lessons we give our children. Some life lessons are more important than others, and some really stick with us. Have you given any life lessons to your children yet? Can you remember the parental life…
