Photo Credit One of the constant battles you will have as a parent is getting your kids to clean their rooms. While I can’t help you with this directly, there are a few things that you can do to make the rooms easier to organise. If you get your kids into good habits early in…
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Brilliant Dad Feature 100. It’s Me!
Read moreWell it’s the brilliant dad feature week 100. I did ask a few celebrities, but unfortunately Matt Damon, Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson were too busy filming so I guess you will have to put up with me little old DIY Daddy! A little bit about me. I’m a dad to five children. Four…
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Celebrating A Century Of Brilliant Dad Feature’s Tomorrow
Read moreThe Brilliant Dad Feature is 100 weeks old tomorrow. I never for one minute thought that when I started it, it would still be going 100 weeks later, but here we are! I remember clearly when I thought up this idea for a weekly feature on my blog, that if I got 20 dads to…
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Being Organised with My Twins and My Home Office
Read moreI am a very methodical person and I need everything to be organised which includes every part of my life. I’m a self employed painter and decorator, and I have a small office at home. My OCD was in overdrive when I was designing my office. I needed to make sure all of my furniture…
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Do You Have A Favourite Child?
Read moreI’m one of three children and I would openly admit I am my mother’s favourite. This could be because my brother and sister are much older and I was left to grow up with just my mum. Nowadays she has no contact with my brother and sister so I guess I unquestionably became the golden…
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Brilliant Dad Feature Week 97
Read moreThis week our Brilliant Dad Feature is Benny. He recently quit his job as an auctioneer to become a stay at home parent, which he says he loves. He decided to start a blog called Daddy Poppins to help him meet others in similar situations, allowing him to write and tell jokes and generally give…
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I See a Little Bit of Me in All My Children
Read moreWhen I observe my children it really amuses me that they have some of my traits. Quite often they really are very small insignificant things or they could tell me something that they have done and I smile and instantly think yes, I did that! Haha! Your children are going to pick up habits from…
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My Four Year Old Twin Girl, R, Always Puts A Smile On My Face
Read moreIn just over five weeks time my twin girls will be five years old, and they are now in their second full term in primary school. I feel they have grown up so much since Christmas and their observational skills and memory are developing into very powerful tools. Ultimately our children mimic what we do…
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Parent Bloggers. Are We Putting Our Children in Danger as They get Older
Read moreAs a parent blogger I have begun to wonder that as I chronicle my four year old twin girls lives, am I leaving them open to ridicule and bullying from school friends or friends as they grow older? The thought that crossed my mind is are we possibly giving out too much information about our…
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As Parents Do You Agree Or Disagree
Read moreAs parents do you always agree together as to the decisions regarding your children or is it a point of conflict? As parents do you have same values in the possible rights and wrongs of parenting or is it something that causes issues? Do you have the same attitude towards your children on how they…
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Is There a Right Way to Be a Parent?
Read moreWhen you become a parent for the first time there is no doubt you’re completly clueless, so as new parents we often go off to our local bookstore to buy some parenting books because of course when the baby is impossible to comfort and screaming the place down at 2am you can quickly run to…
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2 Marriages 5 Kids = No Money
Read moreIf I had known when I was a teenager how much I would earn and spend throughout my life, would I have done it any differently? OMG! Yes! Yes! And yes again! Hey ho! I didn’t. I don’t think for one minute that you plan your life. I think we all like to think we…
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Taking A Moment and Reflecting On What I Created (Family)
Read moreBeing a dad of five children I hope I don’t miss any part of their lives, but the reality is, I will. I am great believer in karma and that good will always overcome bad, and with me life could have dealt me a better deal, especially my childhood, but out of the bad came…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreMy Sunday photo this week is simple. It’s all about trust and belief. As one of my four year old twins is lifted in the air by her mummy. There is not a moment of doubt that she might drop her. I just love this photo.
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All This Spare Time: What Will We Do? Get Very Romantic.
Read moreLast week, as I have already written, my four year old twins started school full-time. My only job of the week was decorating a hall/landing and stairs in a semi detached house which went a lot quicker than I had anticipated, enabling me to finish by mid morning on Friday. What could we get…
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Drugs, Alcohol and My Children
Read moreHere’s a subject matter every parent will have to talk to their children to at some point in their lives and rightly so. It’s vital that our children are given the right knowledge and information to assess the dangers. There is no question that if alcohol was invented today it would be banned. Drugs and…
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Feeling guilty as a parent never goes away
Read moreAs parents do we ever feel guilty that we are letting our children down in any way? I would have to say that I definitly feel guilty, but is it us or is it our children putting a guilt trip on us? Children are very clever at making us believe we are not doing a…
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Top tips to help your child to sleep
Read moreI am a dad of five children and have had my fair share of sleepless nights. There can be a number of reasons why your child won’t sleep including colic, wind, hunger or just simply needin a nappy change. Colic in particular affects one in five babies in the UK. Britain’s number one colic remedy,…
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Keeping our Children Safe. Guest Post.
Read moreThank you to Martin who blogs at At Home with the Boys for writing this guest post. I’m sure it’s fair to say that as our children grow older, they experience different challenges, each of which, help with their development. But as the rolling over, crawling and toddling stages develop, there too will come the dangers…
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