What is a pancake's favourite song?
Scroll down for the punchline, plus a roundup of the hilarious parenting content from the week, guaranteed to make you smile, if not laugh out loud. Plus the odd helpful tip.
Happy Saturday Dads!
Does anyone else feel that having kids puts you at both ends of the dieting spectrum all at once?
One minute you’re happily guzzling down leftover fish fingers and the next you find yourself hiding away in the bathroom so that your kids don’t hear you crunching through your cheerios.
Coming up this week…
How many of their 5-a-day do your kids eat?
Revolutionising the dad-holds
Recipe of the week
Tom Hardy struggles with sleep deprivation too
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)
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🔢 It’s all in the numbers
How many of your 5-a-day would you say that your kids eat?
Given how fussy they are, it’s not surprising to hear that 25% of parents struggle to get them to enjoy a healthy diet, with 35% saying their tots don’t like different textures.
We’re betting that if those textures were wrapped in a pink Kiddylicious packet then they’d be gobbled up no problem.
Are you one of the 61% who avidly try to trick their kids into eating vegetables without realising? If so, our Jamie Oliver recipe below might help.
What other tricks do you have up your sleeve?
Asking for a friend…
⚒️ Try this at home
This week we’re speaking to the new dads out there, especially those understandably freaking out about how to hold a tiny, fragile newborn.
Well, fear no more. Thanks to Instagram dad @howtodadnz, we now have a complete range of “standard” dad holds available for your selection.
Our favourite: “hide the beer belly”
Full video here.
💻 Dad hack of the week
We’re 99% sure that 99% of the hacks we share relate to preventing late onset back pain.
Not sure we love what that says about the stage of life we’ve reached.
Let’s pretend we didn’t notice that and move on.
Anyone figured out the appropriate way to carry a car seat without slipping a disk or smashing your knee in? No? Well this guy has.
Just perhaps avoid showing off to the midwives whilst leaving the baby ward for the first time.
🍽️ Recipe of the week
Sticking on the theme of getting your kids to eat their 5-a-day, trying this Jamie Oliver recipe will actually get you closer to 7, leaving some decent room for error should the entire bowl not get demolished!
Recipe: 7 VEG PASTA SAUCE
🧅 2x small onions
🥬 2x small leeks
🌱 2x sticks of celery
🥕 2x carrots
🥒 2x courgettes
🫑 2x red peppers
🥔 600g butternut squash
🧄 2x cloves of garlic
🍅 2x 400g tins of plum tomatoes
Full recipe here.
⭐ How the stars do it
How much are you struggling with child-enforced sleep deprivation at the moment?
Well it might help to know that even actor Tom Hardy struggled with it during the early years as a new dad.
“If anyone else did that to you, you’d have them up at the Hague for war crimes.”
Upcoming dates that it might be worth having up your sleeve:
Pancake Day | 13th Feb; obligatory pancake flips incoming 🥞
Valentine’s Day | 14th Feb; you still got time. GO GO GO! ⏱️
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 is a pancake's favourite song?
'Beat it'.
source: netmums.com
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