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Family Camping for beginners – Camping with Babies & Toddlers

Posted on April 26, 2019May 2, 2019 by Henry Elliss

When I first started posting about camping here on the blog, a couple of friends commented to me that they’d love to try camping – but couldn’t because of their small children. An opinion I was familiar with, as I’d once thought the same thing. We took our boys camping for the first time when…

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Fatherhood²: The Finnish Government treats Parents Right. Here’s why

Posted on July 23, 2014January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Last week, a photo album began circulating on social media sites which showed a young Finnish mother-to-be receiving her government-funded maternity box. The photos generated a huge amount of interest in the Finnish system – but other than showing us the contents of said box, didn’t do justice to quite what an awesome initiative it…

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Fatherhood²: Five Scary Parenting Myths…

Posted on May 20, 2012January 7, 2018 by Henry Elliss

…and 20 moments that will make you forget them! Unlike five years ago, we’re now at the stage in our grown-up lives where more and more of our friends from school/university are starting to settle down and have families. As a result, my Facebook feed is quite often filled with expectant or new parents fretting…

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Fatherhood²: A Book for Every Life Lesson – Part 2

Posted on April 18, 2012March 1, 2018 by Henry Elliss

As I sit here on the eve of both Robert and Freddie going in to whole-day care/education, I thought it would be a good time to post the follow-up to my post “A Children’s Book for Ever Life Lesson“. After I published the last post, lots of you were kind enough to suggest books which…

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Fatherhood²: V-BACk to That Old Chestnut Again…

Posted on March 15, 2012March 1, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Back in June 2011, just one week before Freddie was born, I wrote a post about the curious subject of “VBAC” – aka “Vaginal Birth After Caesarian. If you didn’t read it back then, you might like to quickly now before I go on, as things have taken an interesting turn this week: Fatherhood²: “VBAC…

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Fatherhood²: Guest Post – Feeding Time at the Zoo

Posted on March 5, 2012March 1, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Henry has been asking me to write a blog for ages. I’ve always declined the offer as I’ve really got nothing interesting to say on parenting – plus I’d never written a blog. So it was a teensy bit scary. But I’ve finally thought of something to write about which, if it reassures or helps…

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Fatherhood²: How Tricky is it Taking a 5-week-old Baby on Holiday?

Posted on August 15, 2011March 3, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Having just returned from a week’s holiday with our family, I thought I’d share a few my thoughts on travelling with a very small baby. I’m by no-means the expert, but having been told that we were mad for even thinking of taking such a young child (just 5 weeks old on the day we…

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Fatherhood²: Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it’s Back to Work I Go…

Posted on July 24, 2011March 3, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Just a little over 3 weeks after little Frederic was born, today marks the last day of my paternity leave – a realisation which has made me rather sad this weekend. As I’ve said in past posts during these few weeks, I really appreciate the paternity leave we in the UK get – and especially…

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Fatherhood²: Five Days in, is it Double Trouble?

Posted on July 6, 2011March 3, 2018 by Henry Elliss

Before little Frederic was born on Friday, I’d speculated on a few occasions that having a second child couldn’t possibly be as hard as the first one – something which I’m still just about clinging on to now, five days in to little Freddie’s life. Some things have definitely been easier, some things just as…

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Fatherhood²: T-minus 2 Weeks and Counting

Posted on June 18, 2011March 3, 2018 by Henry Elliss

At 38 weeks, this week marks the time in our first pregnancy when Robert was born – so anticipation is running fairly high in our house at the moment. As with most pregnancies, Sara is looking a little bigger this time around (supposedly the muscles having relaxed more during the last pregnancy causes more “expansion”…

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