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From Lads To Dads Official
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Raising boys to care!
Not our usual comedy/motivational type of post but as dads talking to other dads I think it's an important discussion to have. The...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Jan 26
- 4 min
Special Guest Tai Woffinden.
This week we were lucky enough to have 3x world champion speedway rider Tai Woffinden on the podcast to discuss his life as a parent, his...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
New Years Eve 2020 lockdown ideas.
As most of the country is in tier 4 this new year's eve, and quite frankly most of the world is locked down, things may be a little...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Dec 4, 2020
- 1 min
Elf on the shelf ideas!
That Naughty little elf on a shelf can only mean it's time for Christmas, and another 25 days of trying to come up with ideas on where to...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
Happy International Men's day!
This International Men's day I think it's important to acknowledge the struggles men are having, in terms of mental health which in large...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Nov 9, 2020
- 5 min
Parenting Book Review: Mum's the Word by Rebecca Oxtoby
In this latest blog, we get to interview the lovely Rebecca Oxtoby. As a new parent, it becomes clear pretty quickly that there's no...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Best Halloween ideas for kids in 2020.
2020 has been a strange year for us all, we've had to face some pretty strange times, with COVID and the lockdown that has followed. So...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Oct 11, 2020
- 3 min
Terrible tantrums, and how to deal with them!
Mood swings, irrational anger, lashing out, emotional outbursts, growth spurts, these are the side effects of taking anabolic steroids!...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Oct 2, 2020
- 1 min
Competition time!!
This week we launched our new competition. We wanted to celebrate the launch of our new YouTube channel, as well as give something back...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Sep 4, 2020
- 4 min
The importance of being idle.
You've got to nourish to flourish! The title of this post is named after a song written by one of my favourite bands, and although the...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Aug 18, 2020
- 6 min
Things no one tells you about being a Dad!
When myself and Ben started Lads to Dads, we were both new to the parenting game, and if we're honest with ourselves it was a world as...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Lads in Paris
We haven't always been just some small person's Dad. There was a time when people knew us as Ben or Matt. And just like the podcast...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
A Dad joke too far.....
The day your child is born is a life changing day for everyone involved, not only because you've now become a proper adult, who has to...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
Call that a Dad Bod??!!!
Zac Efron you have a lot of work to do as far as dad bods go! A Dad bod is not just built in a couple of weeks by eating a few McDonald's...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
Honeymoon holiday with the kids.
First of all, I know me and my wife are going to hell for having children out of wedlock but I was bullied into it ( very easily...
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From Lads To Dads Official
- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
Toddler Topping
"Comparison is the thief of joy" Theodore Roosevelt said that, and quite frankly I think he was ahead of his time. One of the biggest...
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