For British dad Dave Freed, returning to ‘part-time’ work after seven months’ parental leave was a culture shock – not least because of the attitudes of some colleagues.
Preaching papas’ plight with Mike Cruse
Kids quitting: a father’s dilemma
Are we too connected?
From one Father(‘s Day) to the next
Why Father’s Day is more important than Mother’s Day
You’re amazing (even if I’m not meant to say it!)
A day in the life of a working dad
Remembering Dad and Poppy
The clash of freedom and guilt
“Congrats, you’re a new dad. Now get back to work!”
Get to know Sonny and Rudy’s dad – Hamish Blake
One widowed parent, one time machine
A follow-up to ‘101 experiences I want my daughter to have’
Dispelling the ‘Mr. Mom’ myth
Dating as a 40-year-old single parent
Craig Freeman, The Rambling Dad
Doing a U-turn on the childless
Getting paid to Dad
My failure: a son in therapy
Fortunate child: having a good father
Letting go… or being let go?
2 o’clock and all was well
Post-it notes and parental pitfalls: Q&A with Chris Illuminati
When the wheels come off
I thought I was emotionally connected, how wrong I was
Blank tapes, beers and The Boss
My postnatal depression battle
David Millard, Creator, Tales of Two Children
The good, the dad and the ugly
Likeness and love: a Mother’s Day tribute
It Takes a (Virtual) Village
Jason Thompson: artist, dad
Brad Blanks: NYC on-air personality and dad of three
The dad who gets paid to drink and write about beer
Anxiety: More powerful than a locomotive
Mark Nethercote: author, paediatrician, (belated) dad
Three wise women
Profile: Brad Nagle, Dear Agony Dad
Light and shade: my daughter’s first painting of me
Dave Butters: businessman, man’s man, dad
Third time’s a charm
The Decade Gap
Why dads with girls should be happier… or should they?
“I just want to be the best dad I can be…”
Hospital Green
“You’re going to Nanna’s, b!tch!”
Red Dinosaur
No Jacket Required
Parenting & (Anti) Social Media
Important Men’s Business
Dad Life
Articles
Mealtimes with a toddler-aged daughter can be fraught affairs, writes Andy Robinson (a.k.a. Poo Daddy).
In The Dad Website’s latest profile, we catch up with Mike Cruse, creator of the popular parenting blog Papa Does Preach (I know, we can’t get the Madonna song out of our heads now, either).
For Californian dad Eric Miller, applying Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘10,000-hour rule’ – the suggested time required to master something – to his daughter’s many endeavours has proven an impossible task.
London blogger Brad Nagle laments modern society’s lust for online gratification, and vows to refocus on his physical realm.
British parenting blogger ‘Feelingmumyet’ writes that Father’s Day this year was a far happier event for her husband and the two ‘hard-to-place’ boys they adopted in 2015.
Can one day honouring a parent be more important than another? Yes it can.
In the second of our three-part ‘Mums on Dads’ series ahead of Father’s Day, British mum-blogger Hayley Yates (a.k.a. Law of Mum) writes that praising modern dads can be a tough – but necessary – balancing act.
Wake. Commute. Work. Commute. Parent. Bed. Repeat. Sydney blogger James Smith guides us through a typical day in his life as a working dad.
Ahead of Father’s Day in Australia, Emma Boyd pays tribute to her dearly missed dad.
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Loved this John. I detest house work, John's shed is much tidier and ordered than the house. Shows how much time he spends in his […]
Oh dear! What have I started. Thanks Jo. Next episode coming on building a mezzanine in the garage. With swearing.
Loved your blog John - even got inspired to do housework myself- Jo