Camping tips, tricks and advice from a fairly average parent and a reformed dad blogger
Time for an admission: I’m one of those annoying people who starts getting excited about Christmas around the start of November. Actually, that’s not strictly true: I actually start getting excited about it around the end of August, but I try not to vocalise this excitement until slightly later in the year, lest I make…
When the lovely people at HP emailed to ask if I’d like to treat myself to a test-drive of one of their Pavilion x360 laptops, I naturally assumed it was actually a trick (Look at me – I got a hallowe’en joke in the very first line of this post – impressed?!). Upon further inquiry,…
The lovely people at House of Fraser recently wrote to me to ask if I’d like to pick some clothes out for the kids, from their latest collection. They’re apparently doing a project called ‘Dressed by Dad’ (sounds like a recipe for disaster, if my own dress sense is anything to go by!) and let…
One of my friends shared this on Facebook, and it made me howl with laughter so I had to share it here. Apparently the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Choirs Orchestra decided to record their own rendition of ‘O Fortuna’, with some very parent-friendly new lyrics by Matthew Hodge. “O You Terror.” Click the video below…
According to “research” released today, a large proportion of fathers pretend to be asleep when their child cries during the night. To summarise what is essentially a press release for a nappy company, dads are arse holes who leave the serious stuff to mum. Let me caveat this post by saying that, as a marketer…
I’ve never professed to being a parenting expert – far from it in fact. Despite the fact that I run a blog about being a dad, most of you will know by now that I’m just muddling my way through like the rest of them. One thing I HAVE learnt in my 6+ years as…
I know you aren’t supposed to compare your children to each other, and you certainly aren’t supposed to put them in boxes (well, not without air-holes anyway!) – but sometimes it’s hard not to categorise them. For instance, I think anyone who knows my children would be hard-pressed not to notice that my eldest is…
Dear Lego I’m writing you this letter because I’m worried about you. I think you might be hanging around with the wrong people, and I’m concerned that nobody else is telling you this – or at least getting through to you. Let me start off by saying this: I love you, Lego. We go back…
For Freddie’s birthday treat this year, we decided to head to the Midlands to experience the delights of ‘Thomas Land’ – the Thomas the Tank Engine-themed park which nestles itself inside Drayton Manor, up near Birmingham. As a regular viewer of the aforementioned Thomas, the moment Freddie heard Thomas Land existed he wanted to visit…
I think I just bribed my son. I didn’t mean to. I had intended to create a reward program which would be mutually beneficial to both him and us, his parents. I wanted to reward him for doing something which will be good for him, will encourage him to try new things and step out…