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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 was interested to learn recently that parents in the USA seem to be as sick of Peppa Pig as a lot of us over here are. Their gripes are quite different to mine though. To be fair, most people will differ from me, as I have a complete manifesto against the anthropomorphic pig. I don't ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amelie's speech is developing at an amazing rate at the moment. All of a sudden, she's coming out with new words, phrases and even short sentences. We've witnessed the word explosion phase twice before with Dylan and Xander so we shouldn't be surprised but, somehow, we are. I think this is because there's still a fair ...
Somehow or other, Amelie is 18 months old already. It's a whole year and a half since her dramatic arrival. I've got no idea how the time has passed so quickly, but here we are with another little one who is getting into everything. Her speech is really coming along and she has added plenty of ...
It's been a while since I wrote a post about Amelie, so it's definitely time for an update. First things first, she's now at the stage where we don't know how to refer to her. She's somewhere between baby and toddler at the moment - she's been mobile for ages, but still looks like a baby. So what are ...
It's gone in a blur but Amelie is one year old already. I remember the first year passing quickly with both Dylan and Xander, but this has to be a new record. Yesterday was a year since her dramatic arrival. Despite her worrying start to life, everything has been pretty straightforward since and she's a happy ...
I can't believe that Amelie is 11 months old already! We have had another month of milestones and mischief as she continues to make her presence felt. The big news is that her first teeth have finally broken through. They had been basically visible beneath her gums for months and all the other signs were ...
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.
