The School Run
We leave the house at 8:32am. This is not negotiable. Everything before 8:32am is negotiation.
Category
Community & Social
Isolation, finding your tribe, and navigating dad life socially
The Competitive Other Dads
There is a dad at the school gate who mentions his son's reading level in conversation the way other people mention the weather.
Working From Home With Small Children (The Honest Version)
My home office is also the place where someone has decided to keep a felt-tip collection. These things are in tension.
How I Made Friends as a 44-Year-Old Dad (A Guide for Introverts)
Making friends as an adult is genuinely hard. Making dad friends as an introverted 44-year-old is like trying to install software on a machine that doesn't know it needs it.
Being the Oldest Dad at the School Gate
The other dads are 31. I remember being 31. I was an idiot.
Dad Groups Don't Exist. Or If They Do, Nobody Told Me.
Claire has three WhatsApp groups for mums. I have a group chat with two friends who are also dads, and we mostly send each other football scores.
Why I Started Writing This (And Why It Took Me 18 Months)
The honest answer is that I kept looking for this blog and it didn't exist. So here we are.