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I've been down in the dumps lately. To be honest, I think most of us have. The weather has been bleak and the interminable Brexit gloom hasn't helped either. As a result, I've been harder on myself than I normally am. Particularly with regards to my parenting skills. But, over the weekend, I realised something I hadn't ...
A couple of weeks ago, we were on the bus to my parents' house. When we got off, another passenger tapped me on the shoulder. At first, I thought I must have left something behind so I was pleasantly surprised by what he said. He told me that it was lovely to see two parents paying ...
As I mentioned recently, I've learned to love the school run thanks to the conversations I have with my kids. I was interested, then, to read a recent article by the brilliant Stuart Heritage. Who, incidentally, I was once on a panel with at a Mumsnet event. Thoroughly nice chap he is too. Anyway, in said article, he ...
How much time do you get to spend exclusively with your partner? If you have children, the answer might be something to the effect of 'not a lot'! Help is at hand in the form of 'micro-dating'. More on that later. A recent survey by Legal & General has found that 36% of parents between 18 and ...
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about the careers advice I got at secondary school. Looking through the responses I gave in the questionnaire, it struck me how much I've changed as a person. This isn't a great surprise, of course. I was not quite 16 when I completed it and nobody's the finished article ...
It's oldest's birthday today. Somehow or other, he's eight years old already. This, of course, means that I've been a parent for the same amount of time. As I mentioned in yesterday's rather silly post, I've changed a lot since then. Here, then, are eight important life lessons I've learned in eight years of parenting. You weren't ...
My oldest child will be eight tomorrow. It doesn't feel that long ago since he arrived, but a lot has happened since then. We've welcomed two more children and I've had a career path worthy of a roller coaster. As a result, I've changed a lot as a person. Don't worry, I'm not going to go all ...
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 ...
All three of my children seem to get cheekier with every passing day. Particularly my two sons. They have an ever-growing repertoire of ways to humiliate me in front of other people. I used to think I'm reasonably cool as far as my children are concerned, but clearly not. Their antics have proved that I'm really ...
We recently made a big financial decision that will have a huge impact on our children. That sounded a lot more serious than it needed to be. We're starting to give the boys pocket money! There are a few reasons for this. First of all, it was high time. Dylan will soon be eight and Xander recently ...
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.
