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Happy World Inventors Day! If your kids are anything like mine, they love inventing things. Mine are forever writing their own comics featuring all kinds of weird and wonderful contraptions. They rarely make it off the page though. So, to celebrate the recent publication of The Little Inventors Handbook and to mark World Inventors Day, I ...
I often think that it must be harder being a kid these days. Today's children are bombarded with information and this can make them a little bit too knowing before their time. There seems to be more pressure on them too. I don't recall having nearly as much homework or tests as my sons do. They're both ...
Happy World Book Day! It struck me that parents - and dads in particular - don't often feature in the books I read to my kids. With that in mind, I challenged myself to think of a few literary dads to write about. Most of those in books I've read have left a bit to be ...
Encouraging the kids to read and play with LEGO are both important to us. So this new book was always going to be well received! As its name suggests, LEGO City Busy Word Book is a great title for parents who want their little ones to build their vocabulary as well as the famous bricks. The new ...
Dylan is a big Star Wars fan and is enjoying learning coding skills at school. So it was a no-brainer when we were offered a copy of Star Wars Coding Projects for my Padawan to help review! This new title published by DK is a step-by-step guide to coding using the free beginner coding language, Scratch. ...
I have to admit that I really enjoyed writing my recent literary criticism of Dear Zoo. To my surprise, however, this self-indulgent act of whimsy was really well received. So much so, people have actually asked to write more of the same. So it seems that this may be the start of a series. The second ...
One of Amelie's favourite books at the moment is Dear Zoo. It's an enduring classic, I have to admit. She enjoys the story and it's nice reading it again after Dylan and Xander grew out of it. In fact, it's one of the few books she hasn't damaged, which is a sign of great esteem. ...
One of the films I'm hoping to watch this summer is Spider-Man: Homecoming. I've enjoyed all the incarnations of everyone's favourite web-slinger and am looking forward to seeing how the new Spidey compares. Dylan and Xander are big fans too. Indeed, Dylan's main topic at school this term has been 'heroes'. As a result, some of his projects ...
Although we do our best to teach Dylan and Xander about sexism, they both come out with some utter nonsense at times. For example, I've heard the line "That's a girl's colour" far too much. Similarly, I've had to point out to them on several occasions recently that women can be doctors. They seem to have ...
Xander got a book of fairy tales for Christmas. As he's so obsessed with anything screen related, we were somewhat surprised when he asked for it. We were happy that he did, of course, and have been reading them regularly since. I'd forgotten how fire and brimstone some of them are. In the compendium we got him, ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
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.
