As a modern man, I support equality for all. Women are still discriminated against in some walks of life, but Dads are certainly treated less favourably when it comes to baby changing facilities. Unfortunately, either baby changing facilities are lacking or hidden away in the ladies. This is a common thing for new Dads to encounter and I have on occasion had to change my boys’ nappies on the floor of the toilets or in the car. Mums don’t appreciate it either, Dad goes to change the nappy and returns moments later, baby in hand and a look on his face saying ‘It’s not might fault they’re in the ladies.’ Many retailers or restaurants put one set of baby changing facilities in the disabled toilet, but this creates its own problems especially if it is a popular family attraction or if the disabled toilet is locked. Nobody wants to be hanging around waiting for a key when you’ve got the smell of an ‘up the back-er’. Earlier this year in the USA, Barrack Obama made it law that all public toilets had to have a baby changing facilities for men to use. This year’s Sudocrem Care & Protect Baby Changing Room Awards have launched and they are focussing on dads.
This year’s awards are looking to recognise those facilities in the UK that do support fatherhood and changing their baby’s nappy! Sudocrem have teamed up with The Dad Network for the category ‘Best Dad’s Toilet.’ You can vote for the best changing facility you have come across. If you enter you will be put into a prize draw to win a family trip to Knoll House, Dorset! You can vote here: https://sudocrem.co.uk/social-hub
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This is the final blog in a 3-part series about gifts for Dads this Christmas. This blog gives ideas of gifts for a Dad for under £10. Genuinely Christmas is a period for spending time with family, but if you are still looking for gift ideas then these might help to make Christmas a little more magical for your Dad, husband, partner or loved one.
We have avoided the usual Dad gifts of socks, ties and scarves as most Dads have still got the ones they received last year.
Any parent will tell you that there are not enough hours in the day; things are especially busy when planning an event like a kid’s birthday party. When we were organising our little one’s 2nd Birthday Party we wanted to see if we could save some time. We decided to try partybagsandsupplies.co.uk they provide party supplies, themes and party bags for many occasions.
Ted loves dinosaurs so we chose the Jurassic World party theme, the product was dispatched and arrived in a couple of days. Everything was in the box: a table cloth, cups, plates, napkins and pre-filled party bags. Each party bag contained a dinosaur mask, a dinosaur flyer, a stretchy dinosaur and some sweets.
We’ve all been there, it’s dinner time and you and your partner/wife/significant other spend so long discussing/arguing about what you’re going to have to eat that you end up grumpily eating beans on toast at midnight. Over last few weeks, we have tried to avoid this issue and save money by planning our meals in advance.
It is a really simple idea, but highly effective. We sit down at the weekend and come up with some ideas of meals that we fancy for the week ahead. This includes breakfast, lunch and dinner and for the boys as well as ourselves. You can choose Baked Potatoes and Beans or take some time looking for exciting new recipes that you’d like to try. I have been using an excel spreadsheet, but you can use google sheets, a scrap of paper whatever you wish to plan out the meals for the week ahead. When planning be realistic, if you know you’re going out for a meal on Saturday or you always have a chippy tea on a Friday then put this in the plan. You can even plan that if you know you will have leftovers then you can have this for your lunch the next day. |
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