A new kind of debate about parenting is emerging and it gets to the heart of the matter – to what really makes mothers, fathers and children happy or miserable. Duncan Fisher, author of  Baby’s Here! Who Does What? explains:

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At Engaging Fathers as Partners: Delivering for Families in the Big Society, taking place in central London on 11 November, you will hear the latest government view from Tim Loughton, Minister for Children and Families, who will also present the prestigious Fatherhood Institute ‘Fathers in the Big Society’ award and £500 prize to this year’s winner.
Adrienne Burgess, Fatherhood Institute Head of Research – one of the world’s …

Are you looking at the winter holidays with dismay? If you’re not sure what to do with the kids, especially when faced with bad weather, check out Whattodowiththekids.co.uk . The site’s days out search facility lets you to search within over 4,700 activities and attractions around the UK to find something to do that will keep YOUR family happy and busy, whatever the weather.

Please fill in our Dad Camp survey – and pass it on to all your mum and dad contacts!
Here at the Fatherhood Institute, we are planning to run a series of holiday opportunities for dads, stepdads, granddads, uncles, foster fathers etc and their children next summer – called Dad Camp.

About two thirds of mothers and of fathers think that parents should share responsibilities. Only about one third report that they do, according to Duncan Fisher, author of Baby’s Here! Who Does What?

Adam Perrott, author of children’s book “Eerie Deirdre Darkly”, became the first recipient of The People’s Book Prize “Beryl Bainbridge Prize For A First Time Author” at an awards ceremony in Central London.

It was 1980, and we were bringing up our daughter in Hawaii.  Correction, it was she who was rearing us!  My wife, Sachi, and I had read the Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff, and we where most impressed by the wisdom, and practicality of using the Yaquana’s methods of rearing children.  We were in an ideal place for rearing a child.  The local Hawaiians were into giving, sharing, and caring, and they responded well to our daughter’s love and obvious happiness.

My name is Yossi Pinkas and I am CEO and Founder of TakeCare, a provider of online personality and risk assessments of Nannies, Au Pairs and Babysitters. TakeCare’s NannyTest helps parents assess potential caregivers by providing a better insight into their personality and traits, as well as an assessment of possible risk factors.

Fatherhood in an historical and contemporary context is celebrated in a season of TV programmes encompassing documentary, science, drama, and entertainment, to be screened on BBC4 in the week following Fathers Day in the UK.  Among other things, these programmes re-write the history of modern fatherhood, looking beneath the social stereotypes – frequently based more in myth than in reality – which have shaped our thinking about men in families.

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David Finney; not as young as I’d like to be…or think I am (especially when I mix golf trips and ‘shandies’…but that’s another story!!!)…sadly, 53 and not getting younger!!