As most people who read this blog will probably be painfully aware, I’m a bit of a Lego fan. Actually, that’s probably an understatement – I’m a huge, geeky Lego fan – and thankfully my children like it quite a bit too. We have boxes and boxes of the stuff (all sorted by colour, obviously…
Tag: girls
Fatherhood²: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad and decided to explain the birds and the bees to my 2 and 5 year old – this is a completely different type of sex conversation… As I sat with the boys last night, ready to read our usual 2 bedtime stories, I was chatting with Robert about one…
Fatherhood²: GoldieBlox – Get Girls Engineering!
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know I’ve become quite passionate about the fight against gender stereotyping (“Gender Stereotyping – A Marketer’s View, aka What a (Kinder) Surprise, Will Boys Be Boys?”), both in the media and in my own field of work, marketing. Well, I saw a video on Facebook…
Fatherhood²: Guest Post – When a Part of a Dad Dies
It’s good but it’s not right… There are some things in life that are wrong, even when they’re right. Things that you know should happen, are appropriate and even to be expected, but you still don’t need to welcome them. Its birthday season in the Wall household. My eldest was 9 last week and the…