Happy Saturday Dads!
Depending on your outlook we reckon it’s either a couple of days till your precious beasts are back at school and normality returns, or only a matter of time before they start coughing in your face and the whole family is immediately house-bound again.
Coming up this week…
🥇 Learning tip | Brush their teeth with Duggee
🎾 Activity of the week | Den building with Ikea
🍽️ Recipe of the week | Easy peasy cheese toastie
💻 Hack of the week | Safe sparklers
⭐ How the stars do it | Trick-or-treating with Spiderman
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 tricky thing about parenting is that you can never tell if you’re doing a good job or not because your supervisor is a child and their feedback is insane.
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🥇 Learning tip
For anyone else starting to dread the bedtime routine more than their kids, ours have actually started to brush their teeth longer than a cursory 5 seconds with this video on in the background.
Link here.
🎾 Activity of the week
Back in 2020, Ikea released a guide for building dens to help parents entertain their kids during lockdown. It turns out all you need is a collection of pillows, blankets and a few dozen clothes’ pegs.
Here’s a few you can try out this weekend.
Link here.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
The laziest meal you’ll ever need to know.
Recipe: EASY PEASY CHEESY TOASTIE
🌯 1x mini tortilla wrap
🧀 a handful of grated cheese
Instructions:
Simply grate your cheese into your tortilla before rolling it up and placing in your toaster for a minute or so.
Full recipe here.
💻 Hack of the week
Make sparklers safe this weekend with this creative hack.
Link here.
⭐ How the stars do it
Tom Holland terrified innocent trick-or-treaters after hearing that he’d been selected to play the new Spiderman.
Unfortunately for him, no one knew who we was at the time.
Link here.
Upcoming dates that it might be worth having up your sleeve:
Bonfire Night | Tuesday 5th November; ear defenders. Remember the ear defenders!
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 do you call a small mother?
A minimum
source: @reddit
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