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…
Dad Chats Live – 27 November 2020, the best support and resources for dads. This week we were joined by the brilliant Kieran Anders from @dadmattersuk. Dad Matters is a brilliant community organisation who aim to help dads have the best relationships possible with their families. They also support dads with anxiety, stress and mental health issues. One thing that…
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,…
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 – 28 August 2020, back to school and nursery. It is that time of year again, the back to school dread it kicking in! Maybe your kids are going into a new school year, or starting school or nursery for the first time? Whatever the situation you’re in, we all know that this can be a stressful…
