This week we talk all about religion and spirituality – a really interesting topic! We wanted to touch on how religion and spirituality impacts our lives – what do we believe in, if we believe in anything at all? If we are religious, how does this impact our lives – and our parenting? How do we talk to our children…
Dad Chats Live - Combating Gender Stereotypes to Ensure a Better Future for Our Children
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Topics covered: This week we talked about Combating Gender Stereotypes for our kids. We were joined by James Millar (@politicalyeti), author of “Dads Don’t Babysit”. James talked to us about the importance of tackling gender stereotypes, for us and our children. He talked about the overt, well know stereotypes that we have all seen, and those that run under the…
Dad Chats Live – World Book Day and International Women’s Day. This week there are not one, but two important international days that we want to talk about. The first is World Book Day. We know how important it is to get our little ones reading early, and helping them to be interested in books. S we talked all about…
Dad Chats Live – 26 February 2021 the easing of lockdown. Well folks, here we go again! Boris made an announcement this week about the easing of lockdown, he laid out the roadmap to release us from the latest enforced stay at home situation! So, we thought we should delve into how we are all feeling. Is it a good…
Dad Chats Live Childrens Wellbeing – This week we were joined by special guest Adrian Bethune from @teachappyuk, talking all about what he’s learnt in regards to children’s wellbeing and how parents can better support their kids. 1. Wellbeing – What is it and how can parents support their children? 2. Does your diet affect your wellbeing? Let’s talk about what…
Subjects: This week we were joined by special guest Ian Dinwiddy from Inspiring Dads. A website focused on helping stressed dads balance work and fatherhood. We talked about. 1. Building meaningful relationships with your partner and your children. How do we do it and what are the benefits. 2. Do you find it hard to communicate with your partner? Let’s find…
Subjects: 1. Talking to children about mental health. As it’s children’s mental health week, we want to know how you plan on talking to your children about mental health and their feelings. Or if you’ve already started, how have you gone about it? 2. Has your understanding of mental health changed since becoming a parent? We all know that becoming…
Subjects: This week were joined by special guest Susie Robbins who is a play advocate from @resolvetoplay. She talked about why it’s important to play with your kids from a young age. We know that in previous generations men stereotypically were not as involved in the early years experiences including play. However we now know that it enhances a child’s development…
This week we talk all about the aspirations we have for our kids. Other than wanting our children to be happy and healthy, what do we want for them? Do we want them to be a star athlete? A world renowned doctor? An artist? Musician? We all have hopes and dreams for our children – we want to know what…
Subjects: On this Dad Chats session we discussed the most important things we should be teaching our kids. As we do with all our chats we broke the topics into 3 areas. One thing your parents told you that actually came true. Our parents always claimed to be giving us such sound advice, but half the time we didn’t listen….
