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I've been to not one but two sports days this week. It was nice to spend a bit of time away from my desk and see how my sons did. I like the way their school approaches it too. Although it was competitive in that they were earning points for their respective 'houses', the events ...
Getting young children to eat healthily is a battle that most parents are all-too-familiar with. In fact, according to recent research by Beko, a huge 50% of Brits have given up on trying to get their kids to eat five-a-day. The survey of 2,000 British parents also found that 41% had abandoned trying to getting kids ...
Seven years ago today, I wrote a post about not feeling as young as I once did. It started with a magazine landing with a thud on the doormat. I've written a couple of other posts about age since then, but this one is the official sequel. There are a couple of reasons for this. It's ...
My daughter is very much in the terrible twos stage at the moment. As all battle-scarred parents know, this term is something of a misnomer. It's definitely not confined to the 365 days that little ones spend as two-year-olds. It starts around about the 18-month mark, reaches its peak at roughly two and a half and ...
It's been a while since I published a post offering advice for newer bloggers, so it's high time for another! As a full-time blogger, I get a lot of emails. Most of them are from nice, professional people. What they say in their messages is what they mean. I love working with brands and PRs and ...
One of the best things about working for myself is that I get to spend more time with my family. Until around three years ago, this wasn't the case. I spent a lot of time in offices and on trains. Since knocking that on the head and becoming my own boss though, things have been ...
One frustration many of us have with smartphones is their rather limited battery life. Indeed, 45% of smartphone users in a recent YouGov survey said that longer battery life was their most-wanted feature. For the record, the next two items on the collective wishlist were shatterproof screens (21%) and water resistance (16%). These findings set the stage ...
It's amazing how having kids can cause you to put things off. Take our garden, for example. We've lived in our house for almost eight years and have only just started making it our own! Does it show that I'm not a natural gardener? That's not to say that we've been lazy or, indeed, that I'm blaming ...
Parenting's never easy, is it? This week, for example, I consciously let one of my kids make a mistake, knowing it would probably upset him. It did, of course, and I feel awful. We took the boys out to spend their first few weeks of pocket money at the weekend. It was theirs to do with ...
My daughter has always been fascinated by rabbits. She has four cuddly ones as well as several clothes with bunnies on them. But until this week, I don't think she had ever actually seen a real one! We needed to get some things for our cat at a well-known pet shop so took her along for ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, a multi-award-winning parent blogger.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
