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Small Kids Sneezing Into Your Eyeballs? Here's How To Boost Your Immunity

Even before the global pandemic kicked in, if you’ve got small kids then your house is already a raging plague-pit. Fatherhood involves stemming a torrent of runny noses on a round-the-clock basis. If one of your children gets sick, you’re unlikely to escape. The threat of coronavirus no

Sam Wood: How To Stay Fit At Home During Self-Isolation

Don’t be fooled by the photogenic lifestyle. Sam Wood talks with the sort of hard-baked realism only a dad with two kids under three and a teenage stepdaughter can. “I’m turning 40 in eight weeks,” the Melbourne trainer admits. “In my 20s, it was important for me to have a six-pack. But I really don’t care anymore.”

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Dad in Progress - Movember's launches podcast for new dads

Movember has just launched its first-ever podcast for new and expecting dads – Dad in Progress . Teaming up with Diamantina Podcast Network (the crew behind The Betoota Advocate, DYL & Friends and The Grade Cricketer), the five-part series is a brutally honest look at the role of dads in

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How To Cope With A Massive Curveball - What I Learnt From My Brain Tumour

Paul Edwards recently was delivered the news that no one ever wants to hear – you’ve got a brain tumour, it’s very large, and it’s going to take big-time surgery to get it out. Speaking from his recovery bed only one month after surgery, Paul shares the surprising positives

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Rockabye Baby will get your kids to sleep with help from AC/DC and Snoop Dogg

Getting your kids to go to sleep is invariably a soul-crushing ordeal that leaves you in urgent need of a very stiff drink. At the end of a brutal day, the nightly ritual of baths, teeth-brushing and bedtime stories often degenerates into a maelstrom of tears, screams and tantrums. And my kids’ beh

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“Turn off the news” – An Expert’s Guide To Talking To Your Kids About Coronavirus

These are strange times. Coronavirus is rocking the world on its axis before giving it a double spin for extra befuddlement. The pandemic has shaken up a dark mood of paranoia and panic buying. It’s a confusing enough time for a parent, but what about your kids? In our playgrounds, they’re callin

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Incoming! The Father Hood Book Is Out Now...

Back in the day, a father’s role was limited to being the breadwinner and disciplinarian. Luckily, times have changed. Our new book celebrates the growing tribe of hands-on dads who are discovering that fatherhood has been the making of them as men.

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Celebrating The Modern Father

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“I Drink More Mid Strengths Now” - Young Henrys’ Oscar McMahon

Oscar McMahon is the co-founder of Young Henrys, the independent craft-beer company that kickstarted Sydney’s urban brewing revolution. But he’s also the father to an 18-month-old daughter who, he admits, “has completely thrown my entire values system up in the air”. Here, Newtown’s favourite son e

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The Busy Dad's Guide To Beating Back Pain

When I get home from work each evening, I open the door and immediately hear the drop of a toy, a high-pitched squeal (not sure if it’s from me or him), and the pitter-patter of my 18-month-old’s feet running through the house to come and greet me. I bend down to his level as he jumps into my arms.

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This Is The Cure For Dad Guilt – Interview With Dr Vijay Roach

The concept of “dad guilt” might be relatively new, but the stats reveal it’s kicking in hard. Research shows that fathers increasingly worry about balancing their family duties with the grind of their working lives. The Pew Research Centre in the US found that almost half (48 per cent) of working

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The Me-Time Masterclass: When The Rare Opportunity Strikes, Here’s How To Make It Count

One of the best pieces of advice anyone ever gave me about parenting was that when you have a rare chunk of free time, to plan your day meticulously. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but if you don’t, the advice goes that you’ll just waste precious time – as soon as your partner and child

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Mat Rogers: What I Know About Fatherhood

Mat Rogers, 44, is a former dual-code international who represented Australia in both rugby league and union. Currently appearing on Australian Survivor: All Stars, he’s the father of four kids: Jack (23), Skyla (20), Max (13), and Phoenix (12). My nickname was Rat, so you can imagine as a youngster

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How Do You Balance Creativity and Fatherhood? The Dadwell Podcast Shows The Way

It’s hard to write a novel with a fractious toddler on your lap. Or design a new brand logo while your baby emits a series of blood-curdling screams. In short, small children have a tendency to disrupt the creative process. As the literary critic Cyril Connolly famously put it: “There is no more so

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The Secret Life Of Dads: Fearing The Apocalypse & Losing Battles About Ice-cream

There are a lot of things that ante-natal classes can’t prepare you for. Fatherhood is a complex business where you’re always getting socked in the nuts by a domestic curveball. Here, four dads reveal what’s really on their minds, from not wanting another child to navigating the fiendishly tricky r

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In Praise of Downtime (Or Why It’s OK For Dads To Sometimes Just Stick On The Telly)

At some point, most likely more than once, every parent will ask themselves the eternal question: what’s the earliest I can reasonably start drinking today? It’s easy to feel guilty a lot when you have a child, because you hear all these people saying about how great it is, and how they wouldn’t ch

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Vincent Fantauzzo: “I Really Wanted To Become A Dad But I Was Also Scared"

Vincent Fantauzzo’s life has a storybook trajectory. Today the 42-year-old is one of Australia’s most famous artists, an Archibald Prize winner who’s married to the beautiful actor Asher Keddie. But his future didn’t always look so promising. Vincent grew up dirt-poor in Melbourne’s Broadmeadows,

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Ross Noble: “To Feel Overwhelmed As A Dad Is Just Normal. Literally, Nobody Knows What They're Doing”

Ross Noble never sticks to a script. The comedian’s stand-up shows are renowned for their freewheeling flights of fancy, happily lurching from horny owls to snooker-playing pirates. This wild imagination, one suspects, is acutely suited to hanging out with young kids. Ross, it turns out, has two da

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"My Anxiety Really Started At The Time Of My First Son’s Birth" - One Dad Shares His Story Of Post-natal Depression

Becoming a father can prove a confronting experience and many new dads struggle to adapt. It is now recognised that around one in 20 men experience depression during pregnancy and up to one in 10 new dads struggle with depression following the birth of their baby. Here, Dave Edwards shares his exper

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Hugh Jackman: "Parenting Is Very Different Now"

Hugh Jackman reflects on how his dad quietly empowered him to become an independent thinker and how – as a dad to Oscar (18) and Ava (13) – modern fatherhood continues to evolve. “Before we had kids, Deb and I made a pretty simple but powerful choice to look each other in the eye

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“The First Six Months Of Our Daughter’s Life I Didn’t Go A Single Day Without A Drink”

Chris Picking is the founder of Pickings & Parry (pickingsandparry.com), a menswear store / barbershop in Fitzroy. He’s also not had a drink for six months and, what’s more, he’s determined to stick it out for a full calendar year. Here, Chris explains how he’s made his stint of abstinence work

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Small Kids Sneezing Into Your Eyeballs? Here's How To Boost Your Immunity

Sam Wood: How To Stay Fit At Home During Self-Isolation

Dad in Progress - Movember's launches podcast for new dads

How To Cope With A Massive Curveball - What I Learnt From My Brain Tumour

Rockabye Baby will get your kids to sleep with help from AC/DC and Snoop Dogg

“Turn off the news” – An Expert’s Guide To Talking To Your Kids About Coronavirus

Incoming! The Father Hood Book Is Out Now...

Celebrating The Modern Father

“I Drink More Mid Strengths Now” - Young Henrys’ Oscar McMahon

The Busy Dad's Guide To Beating Back Pain

This Is The Cure For Dad Guilt – Interview With Dr Vijay Roach

The Me-Time Masterclass: When The Rare Opportunity Strikes, Here’s How To Make It Count

Mat Rogers: What I Know About Fatherhood

How Do You Balance Creativity and Fatherhood? The Dadwell Podcast Shows The Way

The Secret Life Of Dads: Fearing The Apocalypse & Losing Battles About Ice-cream

In Praise of Downtime (Or Why It’s OK For Dads To Sometimes Just Stick On The Telly)

Vincent Fantauzzo: “I Really Wanted To Become A Dad But I Was Also Scared"

Ross Noble: “To Feel Overwhelmed As A Dad Is Just Normal. Literally, Nobody Knows What They're Doing”

"My Anxiety Really Started At The Time Of My First Son’s Birth" - One Dad Shares His Story Of Post-natal Depression

Hugh Jackman: "Parenting Is Very Different Now"

“The First Six Months Of Our Daughter’s Life I Didn’t Go A Single Day Without A Drink”

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