My four year old twin girls are on half term this week. This is split between my wife and I due to our work commitments. I start off with Monday and Tuesday. Monday is a very long day as my wife has to do a late shift in work and isn’t home until 8pm. I…
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Mojo Box Review By Fred’s Box
Read moreMy twin girls love making collections of toys and will they will usually have a theme running through their collections. So when I was approached by Fred’s Box to review their subscription service I thought this would be fantastic for the girls. Both the girls have different tastes. The one loves superheroes and the other…
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When Will You Charge Your Children Rent?
Read moreI left school at 16 years of age and my mother was straight to the point. Right son, you need a job because I’m not keeping you. I imagine I timidly replied ok mum! So I got a job and after a full weeks work I was given my first pay packet. It was an…
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Top Tips For Organising Your Kid’s Room
Read morePhoto 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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When Your Children Become Adults
Read moreImage Credit It’s a bit of a crazy thing to write, let alone live through. One day your children are going to stop being children and are going to grow into adults. Whilst your role as their parent will never be over, it is going to dramatically change. Thankfully this is a gradual thing, from…
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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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The Internet Crashes. OMG! What Will We Do ?
Read moreThe internet crashes worldwide what would we do really it’s a question that I have thought about a few times. OMG ! Life would be so different well actually no it would be like going back to childhood. I remember the early days of the Internet when we had dial-up and it to take an…
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Premature Babies: A Dads View
Read moreI recently read a post by my wife, Emily from Twin Mummy and Daddy about having premature babies. I thought it was a brilliant, informative post for anybody who could be faced with having a premature baby. Our girls were born six weeks early. This is something we obviously didn’t plan on happening, but we…
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Being The Dad I Want To Be
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know I have five children. I’m never sure if I get it right being a dad, but hopefully practise makes perfect. At least that’s what I try to do. Over the last week I have come to realise that it’s not always the big grand gestures of being a…
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My Twins and Parents Evening
Read moreMy four year old twin girls had their second parents evening a few days ago. It’s always a very interesting evening. Trying to extract information from four year olds about what they are doing at school is usually impossible, so it’s nice to see their school books and chat to their teacher about how they…
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Do We As Parents Dictate What Toys Our Children Play With
Read moreI have written on a few occasions about gender stereotyping when it comes to toys, films and activities for our children. I am 100% behind toys being gender free. As parents I have often wondered do we influence what toys our children play with because of our own likes and dislikes from childhood? After all…
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My Sunday Photo ( Big Sister)
Read moreThis weekend my 19 year old daughter came home for the weekend from university. Her twin sisters R and M miss her so much, when she is away studying at university,and never stop talking about her. So it is was a special moment on Saturday morning when they got to have cuddles with her on…
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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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The Effects of the Ageing Population
Read moreThe average age of the population of the UK reached 40 for the first time in 2015 and there are more than 10 million people aged over 60, with that projected to almost double over the next 30 years. This is dramatic demographic change to the population comes with a raft of problems but also…
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Education in war-torn countries: what you can do to help
Read moreBeing a parent really brings home the importance of education for children and you no doubt want your kids to get the best possible schooling. Fortunately, most youngsters in the UK have access to decent schooling, but the same can’t be said for children everywhere. Millions of kids growing up in war-torn countries around the…
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My Sunday Photo
Read moreI managed to capture this moment as my twin girls just got in the car. Before we drove to school. I love the way they are so happy going to school and that they enjoy school so much. It a shame that it is so dark first thing in the morning,when they are going to…
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