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Welcome to the first in a regular (well, let’s hope so!) series of “Panel” blog posts, where I ask my parent panel their opinions on a variety of parenting issues. To start us off with, I’ve asked the panel to give me their opinions on a few of the children’s TV shows which us parents…
As a blogger, I often find myself worrying that I’m getting too stuck in my ways or narrow minded – blogging isn’t exactly a very good forum for discussions. So I like to bounce ideas and get feedback from other parents once in a while. One of my favourite places to do this is Facebook,…
As some of you will know – either from my recent posts on Twitter/Facebook, or from my post “Fatherhood²: A Hospital Stay on the Horizon“, we recently took Robert in to hospital for an operation. After a long and convoluted consultation and referal program (lasting over 12 months), Robert was referred to the RBH to…
You’ve probably all seen this already – I’m usually the last one to the party on these things. But just in case you HAVEN’T, and since it combines three of my favourite things (being a dad, Star Wars and Lego!) I felt obliged to share it… Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader have never been so…
Last weekend, I was listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2, and as usual he was talking about some ‘research’ or tips he’d found on the web. According to the article he was reading (I think it was from MSN – most of them seem to be), Father’s Day is simple = get your dad…
Before I start this post, I should probably point out one thing: I’ve not been asked/paid to write this piece. I decided to write it this afternoon (while visiting Nuffield Place) after realising many people I know have probably written-off the National Trust as a collection of boring, stuffy houses which kids would hate. As…
There’s a common misconception that drinking a small amount of alcohol is better for you than drinking nothing at all. Maybe this is just wishful thinking on behalf of many. The key to this error is a simple misinterpretation of statistics. If we were to class people in the UK into 3 groups: A, B…
As you will probably know by now, reading is a regular event in our household – with bedtime stories happening as regular as clockwork, two books a night, come rain or shine. So when I was contacting by some publishers asking if I’d like to review some of their pre-school books, I was happy to…
With so much talk of literacy and reading at the moment, I found myself curious to know whether the books we enjoy here in the UK are also enjoyed elsewhere in the world. As I’ve recently been invited to join a community of other Dad Bloggers – most of whom reside in North America –…
Those of you that have been reading this blog for a while (or indeed those of you related to me!) will know that both of my sons have had issues with their mouth/throat area. Both Robert and Freddie were born tongue-tied – something which we managed to rectify with Freddie (Read: “Fatherhood²: To the Hospital…