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I was interested to read about a school banning pupils from dressing up as YouTubers and sports stars for its World of Work Day recently. I wrote about the amount of homework young children get earlier this week and it links to the same theme. Namely that we should let kids be kids. The rationale offered by ...
Blogging has been my full-time job for well over two years now. I think it's fair to say that people still don't fully get it though. This is fair enough. It has to be one of the newest vocations out there and new things can take a while for us to get our heads around. As ...
Seven years ago today, I wrote my first ever blog post. It was short, to the point and without any pictures. It was also the most uncomfortable thing I've ever written. Not because I was putting myself out there, you understand. I was a journalist back then, so was already familiar with that. It was ...
I was interested to read this article about work-life balance recently. It argues that workplace culture needs to change to help men become better dads. Although the research and case studies are from Australia as opposed to the UK, there's much that rings true for me. Over here, shared parental leave is dependent on individual circumstances ...
Perceptions of parenting roles have changed significantly in recent years. The cultural shift towards recognising dads as capable parents can only be a good thing. However, there are some attitudes that still need to catch up with 21st century life. With that in mind, the people at WaterWipes are on a mission to redefine and recognise what the ...
Today got off to an unusual start. I had actually slept well. Amelie, who thinks it's much more fun to keep the same waking hours as most woodland creatures, only had us up once. As a result, I felt shattered. It's a strange reaction, I know, but I imagine the body thinks "Yeah, let's have another eight ...
Life has been more than a little hectic of late. With the first week of the new term, our house being on the market and work piling up, it's been difficult to remain calm! This, then, was much needed. I was in nearby Lewes for a couple of meetings and had arrived half an hour early. My ...
Happy National Freelancers Day! In a little over a month, I'll have been my own boss for a whole year. When I quit my well-paid but completely miserable existence at a red tape obsessed organisation last summer, I wasn't sure it would work out. But I took the leap of faith and haven't looked back since. We're ...
Today is exactly three months since I left my old job to go freelance. I'm significantly poorer financially, but so much happier so I know I made the right choice. There have been a few teething problems as well as the stresses you'd expect about being both my own boss and the only earner in the family, but ...
I had to come up with some objectives for the next quarter of the year at work recently. They're a bit of a faff and always sound a little too strategic and impersonal for my liking, but I do see the point hidden behind all the business jargon and am well versed in outlining the achievements ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, a multi-award-winning parent blogger.
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.
