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Dad Chats Live - All About Adoption Week 2021

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It is National Adoption Week so we delved into this important topic on Friday night. Nigel was joined by some regular faces, and a new member of our community to talk about adoption and fostering. National Adoption Week is a great opportunity to raise awareness of how important this topic is. There are currently almost 3000 children in the UK…

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Dad Chats Live - Providing Educational Support For Kids With Easy Peasy App

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It’s Friday folks, and what better way to celebrate the weekend arriving than having another great Dad Chats Live! This week we talked to Martin Vowles from the Easy Peasy App who talked to us about bonding with our children through education. How to provide educational support for kids, and how the Easy Peasy App can help with that. In…
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Dad Chats Live - Open Mic, World Mental Health Day 2021

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This week, in honour of World Mental Health Day 2021, we threw open the chat to our community. This was an open mic night based around mental health. We chatted about the importance of talking about it and getting support when we need it. Some of our great community joined us and opened up about their own journey with mental…
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Dad Chats Live - Talking About Race, Diversity And Racism

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To make the start of Black History Month we are delving into the topic of race and racism. This is something we talk about all year round at Dad Chats, but with this being Black History Month it is another great opportunity to talk about it. We chatted all about educating our kids, and ourselves on diversity, race and racism….
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Dad Chats Live - Male Cancer, Do You Look After Yourself?

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Dad Chats Live: Talking about male cancer – do you look after yourself? This week is Orchid Male Cancer Awareness week, so tackled this topic head-on. We know some men find it difficult to talk about male cancer. But this is another topic that is so important for us to talk about. Did you know that prostate cancer (98%) and…
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Dad Chats Live - The Benefits of Equal Parental Leave

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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…