Happy Saturday Dads!
For anyone attending their first children’s party this weekend, it’d be worth familiarising yourself with the below scene.
You’ll be hard pressed to encounter at least one conversation where you or the other party are not constantly looking over the other’s shoulder at the chaos unfolding without wondering whose child is involved.
Link here.
Coming up this week…
🥇 Learning tip | Montessori water pouring
🎾 Activity of the week | Shower painting
🍽️ Recipe of the week | Crustless mini quiches
💻 Hack of the week | The nappy straight jacket
⭐ How the stars do it | RIP Jack the Lad, Long live Jack the Dad
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 @
(a fellow dad of 2)
The first rule of parenting is that if you open a banana for your child you should be prepared to eat that banana.
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🥇 Learning tip
Montessori learning emphasizes water pouring activities as a way of strengthening fine motor skills and body movement to help with reading and writing development.
Link here.
🎾 Activity of the week
Messy play doesn’t have to turn your house into a bomb-site. Try containing your kids to the shower with a mix of shaving foam, shower gel and food colouring.
Link here.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
Continuing last week’s theme of packed lunches, here’s a decent recipe for batch cooking your way through the week.
Recipe: CRUSTLESS MINI QUICHES
🥚 5x eggs
🥛 60ml of milk
🧀 30g of cheese
+ toppings of your choice
Instructions:
Whisk together the milk, eggs and cheese before placing into a muffin tray with your toppings and baking in a preheated oven at 180c for ~20 mins.
Full recipe here.
💻 Hack of the week
To anyone else searching for baby-sized straight jackets on Zara in the hopes of making nappy changes any easier, here’s the hack for you.
Link here.
⭐ How the stars do it
Jack Whitehall will soon be opening up the doors to shed light on his preparation for fatherhood. What could go wrong?
“RIP Jack the Lad.
Long Live Jack the Dad!”
Link here
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.
How much does a chimney cost?
Nothing. It’s on the house.
source: @iceytekcoolers
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