How important is sleep anyway?
A roundup of the hilarious parenting content from the week, guaranteed to make you smile, if not laugh out loud.
Happy Saturday Dads!
Does anyone know what the record is for the most amount of days a dad has gone without having to change a poo nappy?
In the great lottery of nappy changes, this dad is on a roll reminiscent of his glory days playing minesweeper in the late-90s!
I’m sure my luck will run out sooner or later, but even so, perhaps it’s time to buy that Euromillions ticket after all.
Coming up this week…
Tiredness does weird things to parents
What lengths would you go to to get your child to sleep?
Why some dads really do need supervision
And new to the newsletter this week is a segment that’s come highly requested: They will thank you (scroll down to find out more).
As always, if you enjoyed this week’s edition and think you might know someone else who would, please do share. We know how tough being a parent can be, and sometimes you just need a moment to laugh at some of the craziness.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy that beer once it finally comes.
Fred @
(a fellow dad of 2)
As seen on TikTok
(the links below will take you into the TikTok, Youtube or Instagram websites (or app if you have them); you do not need an account to watch the video)
I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me [link]
Sometimes bubbles are the only thing you need [link]
When you realise your kid picks up more than you think [link]
Well, that’s one way to shed the pounds [link]
It’s all in the numbers
Your baby is going to steal 44 days worth of sleep from you in the next year! [source]
Let that sink in.
Now, unless your c-list celebrity status has led you to a stint on Channel 4’s ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’, then apart from those hazy booze-infused university days, this is likely a new and uncomfortable experience for you.
“I was so sleep-deprived that I put the pacifier in my wife's mouth when she asked me to hand it to her. And she was so sleep deprived that she took it, no questions asked.”
It’s therefore not surprising that we spend countless hours trying to get our kids to sleep. Here are some of the most common tips we’ve heard, any sound familiar?
downloading the White Noise for Babies playlist on Spotify
putting the hoover on
driving around London’s empty streets at 2am with the boy-racers
optimistically, but illogically, turning the cot the other way round
And finally one that we’d not come across before, but hey, no judgement - whatever works!
"My 17-month-old sticks his finger in my mouth and wants me to suck it. It's weird I know but it soothes him.”
I guess we can all take solace in the fact that this will end.
It will end, right?
They will thank you
Think of this new section as your guide to being more Sandy Cohen and less Homer Simpson. We’ll share one thing each week designed to make you, at least appear to be, a better dad or partner.
This week we’ll continue with our theme of the week: sleep. Be the hero your partner needs and try reading up on a few of these widely-used tactics.
Keep all the lights off when changing the nappy and feeding to get the baby swiftly back to sleep again in the middle of the night, we promise you'll become a nighttime ‘nappy change ninja’ in no time
Create a soothing night-time preparation routine... bath, story, milk often does the trick!
Explore the many sleep training methods [details here]
Invest in a toddler night-light
That being said, we’re no experts on the matter. We’re just dads muddling through like the rest of you.
So if you are genuinely having difficulty, please do seek the advice of a professional and not just Youtube.
Although, this doesn’t look half bad as techniques go:
Dad hack of the week
Picture this: you’ve been tasked with looking after the kids for the afternoon, but you’ve already been to the park, taken them to the tip and watched 2 hours of Bluey.
What do you do now?
Perhaps not goad them into an early bull-riding career, like this dad.
That’s it for this week folks.
Thanks again for reading, as always we leave you with one HILARIOUS joke to share with the family, and a feedback poll to help us keep improving.
“A shark can swim faster than me, but I can run faster than a shark…
So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist.”