I was dismayed to read about a celebrity dad recently suggesting that boys should hide their feelings. I believe we definitely should teach boys it’s okay to cry. Ant Middleton who presents Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins made the claim to Giovanna Fletcher on the Podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby. He said that, if …
I was pleased to read about a four-year-old girl calling out LEGO City magazine for a lack of female representation. The daughter of the actor Samuel West noticed that, of the 29 characters who speak in the issue, only one was female and even then it was to agree with a man. The upshot is …
At the start of the summer holidays, we went clothes shopping. The hardest thing to find were shorts for our two-year-old daughter. To cut a long story short, we didn’t think hotpants were appropriate so came home empty-handed. While we were looking in one store, though, I spotted a T-shirt which really annoyed me. “I …
With Father’s Day on the horizon, lists of the most important ‘dad skills’ are doing the rounds. With over seven years of blogging under my belt, I’ve seen a lot of these. And I really wish they weren’t a thing. I can see why people make these lists as marketing tools, of course. Society is slowly …
As a parent blogger, I receive a lot of press releases about kids’ books. One that arrived recently really stood out. At first for good reasons and then quite the opposite. The book in question features rhyming verse and colourful illustrations about fathers looking after their kids. “Brilliant!” I thought. “A title that celebrates hands-on …
As a blogger, I’m always on the lookout for things to write about – particularly now I’m a freelancer too – so I’m subscribed to a number of emails about topics related to parenting and, in particular, the role of dads. It was no surprise then that the subject line of the latest email update from …