It’s really nice to see some emails coming through from people reading this in the last couple of weeks – harald@fatherandchild.org.nz. I thought today I’d write about some of that stunning research about how fathers are important for girls. It seems that the idea that girls learn from their mothers how to be women, and …
- Daddy’s Girls, 10 Apr 2012
- Want to be involved in a dads’ playgroup?, 19 Mar 2012
- Mag for new dads, 16 Mar 2012
- PND Often Trouble for Two, 13 Mar 2012
- The Baby Entertainer, 03 Feb 2012
- Childcare and Preschool, 31 Jan 2012
- Baby Hormones, 17 Jan 2012
Hi, I’m Harald Breiding, I started Father & Child Trust in Christchurch 14 years ago while being a househubby to my wife Hendrikje and my two daughters Linda and Nicky, who were 3 and one years old at the time. To me, connecting with other parents and sharing info is so very important for your own confidence as a parent, but it’s harder to do when you’re at work all day. The internet comes in handy here, and hopefully this blog can be one small contribution to that.
Want to be involved in a dads’ playgroup?
Once upon a time, when my kids were really little and I was at home with them, I had the good fortune of finding another at-home dad and together we started a playgroup. Along the way I found out just how much easier it makes parenting to have other guys around who actually know what …
Mag for new dads
Father & Child’s magazine for dads with a new baby is now just days away from distribution in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch via the Bounty pack. There’s birth stories in there, stuff about child development, work/family balance, postnatal depression and heaps more – a welcome present for new dads. It’s been a big effort for …
PND Often Trouble for Two
I am the only male member on the Board of a fairly new organisation called Perinatal Mental Health New Zealand (www.PMHNZ.org.nz). This mouthful stands for a group that wants to support the supporters by making sure that those working with parents’ early mental health issues have access to information and to ways of sharing experiences. …
The Baby Entertainer
One thing that a lot of dads know too well is that little pang of disappointment when their toddler is upset about something, and runs right past dad to be comforted by mum. Sometimes, of course, dad is that person that tot always runs to, but usually it’s not, and that can make dads feel …
Childcare and Preschool
Of course, the proper name for it is Early Childhood Education (ECE) now, but whatever you call it every parent definitely has an opinion about it. For me, since we didn’t have any grandparents or other family living locally, it was mainly a place where I could drop off the kids for a few hours …
Baby Hormones
Last week I’ve seen my 18 year old daughter off to Brisbane, where she wants to start pursuing a career in tennis, her great passion. Over the years there have been quite a few times where I have been looking forward to this moment, reclaiming a chunk of my life so to speak, but when …
