How to outsmart your toddler 📚⚖️👨🏫
Scroll down for a roundup of the hilarious parenting content from the week, guaranteed to make you smile, if not laugh out loud. And the odd helpful tip.
Happy Saturday Dads!
Anyone else starting to realise that your toddler isn’t so much living in your house, as much as you’re just operating in their playroom?
No matter how many containers you buy from Amazon to organise the ever growing pile of toys, plastic egg shells and toy carrots will be found in literally every corner of your house.
Coming up this week…
Learning tip | This week it’s magic, like literal magic
Activity of the week | An Easter egg hunt without the chocolate
Recipe of the week | Easy hidden veg pasta
Hack of the week | Indoor slides
How the stars do it | In your face Joel Dommett!
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 when it finally comes.
Fred @ For Dads
(a fellow dad of 2)
I love my kids.
I hate parenting.
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🥇 Learning tip
Ready to give your child a God complex? If not, then look away now.
Link here.
🎾 Activity of the week
Anyone else looking for ways to minimize the chocolate intake next weekend? If so, then look no further.
These tried and tested Frozen Dinosaur Eggs provided an afternoon of fun and not a sugar high in sight!
Instructions:
Simply fill a balloon with water and your dinosaur toy of choice (make it small). Place it in the freezer until frozen, before cutting away the balloon and hiding the eggs in the garden.
Link here.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
Recipe: HIDDEN VEG PASTA
🥒 1x medium sized courgette
🧈 1x tbsp of butter
🌾 1x tbsp of flour
🥛 500ml of milk
🍝 150g of pasta
🧀 80g of cheese
Instructions:
Whilst you boil your pasta, melt your butter in a frying pan. Add your flour and allow it to cook for a few mins. Slowly add your seasoning and milk, stirring constantly. Finally add your courgette and cheese.
Full recipe here.
💻 Hack of the week
This one is for the dads heading into the school holidays soon and not so bothered about health and safety regs.
Keep a hold of some of the larger cardboard boxes that you’ve collected up over the last couple of months; they make an epic indoor slide!
⭐ How the stars do it
Sometimes parenting is just about trying (and failing) to avoid triggering your PTSD from university rugby initiations.
Joel Dommett, we feel for you on this one. We’ve all been there.
Link here.
Upcoming dates that it might be worth having up your sleeve:
Wear a Hat Day | 28th March; founded by the Brain Tumour Research foundation the day raises money to support scientific research.
Good Friday | 29th March; don’t stress about your egg painting skills (or lack thereof), here’s a no-mess option using water tattoos. See how long you can keep the jig up before spilling your secret to the wife.
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.
What did the drummer call his kids?
Anna 1, Anna 2
source: @charcraigg
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Absolutely love the pepper and soap trick!