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…
Dad Chats Live – Talking about Coping with Anxiety with Saleema Davies. Saleema is a clinical hypnotherapist and founder of Papalona. A company that creates audio recordings to support children and parents’ mental health easily and effectively. We talk about the impact of anxiety on our lives, and how to cope with it. She shares some brilliant tips like: Use…
Dad Chats Live – Tonight we opened up the floor for an open mic night. We chatted all things parenting, and life in general! It’s been a while since we did this! So we thought it was time to throw over the floor to you! As you know we usually have topics every week, but sometimes it is nice to…
Dad Chats Live – This week we talked with Elliott Rae from @mff about their new book DAD. A collection of 20 stories of fatherhood from 20 real dads who are living it every day. It’s a much needed book that will hopefully help to change the narrative for modern day fathers. Elliott chatted to us about how the DAD book came…
This week on Dad Chats Live we delve into the important topic of caring for children with special needs. We asked you to help us understand what it is like parent non neuro-typical children and learning from our community on this subject was amazing. Whether you;re a parent of a child with special needs, working with families in this situation,…
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…
Dad Chats Live - Mental Health and Self Care; Why It Matters and How To Take Care of Yours
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Dad Chats Live – 16 October 2020, talking about Mental Health and Self Care. This week in Part 1 we were joined by the brilliant MC Grammar (Jacob). If you don’t know who MC Grammar is, he is a brilliant teacher who has taken the reading curriculum, put it to music, and made it fun for our kids! We…
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…
