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One of my favourite things about having kids is the funny things they say and do. I love how out of left field some of them are. They speak without any kind of filter and as thoughts come to them. Sometimes, I can pinpoint where certain utterances or actions have come from, but others leave me completely ...
I've never been a fan of snow and events this week have only served to reaffirm this. As is always the case with me and minor annoyances, there are a few reasons. It starts with the threat of snow and the resultant behaviour of people. The most sensible and rational of folk suddenly become giddy with ...
Youngest's latest obsession is a contender to be the most annoying one yet. She's constantly talking about presents. Now, I'll preface this by pointing out that she's not a greedy child at all. Nor is she spoilt. It's simply down to the way things have panned out in the last few months. It started in early November ...
Big news. The three-year-old finally gave up her dummy recently. The plan was for her to ditch it before she turned three, but we're only a month and a half behind schedule. As the carnival surrounding Christmas happened in the intervening period I'm happy with that. So another parenting battle has been won but at what ...
It's always funny, if sometimes a little cringe-worthy, to hear your own words uttered by a toddler. Since cracking the whole stringing sentences together lark, youngest has come out with some corkers. Particularly recently. Of course, she mostly says the kind of things you'd expect from a three-year-old. For example, we still haven't had the heart ...
Our house has been on the market since September and, thanks to Brexit, things have been really slow. We've had a sum total of two viewings. Two! We're reliably informed that the market is picking up locally though and have also dropped our already-reasonable asking price a tad, so are cautiously optimistic. We're not going to dare ...
Ever since I published my first Mixtapes post last January, I've been meaning to write another one. Well, film sequels often take a year, so why shouldn't music, eh? The penultimate song on that first playlist was one I thought my children would choose. So, following that theme, here are five tracks that could also be messages ...
I'm not usually one to go in for 'new year, new me' kind of things. But, on the final day of 2018, it struck me that perhaps I should do so this once. I was putting up a new mirror at the time, so I was literally forced to reflect on myself. We had been without ...
We've been in a bit of a post-Christmas funk lately. I imagine we're far from alone in that - nobody really knows what to do with themselves between Christmas and New Year. So, yesterday, we decided to get out and about. We had been slouching around the house long enough and got out for some much-needed ...
Something I'm hoping to get for Christmas is Football Manager 2019. I've been a fan of the series since the first ever edition came out. Although, since becoming a parent, I've only got it every few years. So it's fair to say that I'm looking forward to playing it. And, if youngest's recent behaviour is anything to go ...
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.
