Helping men enjoy fatherhood, not just survive it.
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No, we don’t need the ‘Trad Dad’ back
This week I saw a clip resurface of Bill Maher, the American comedian, talking about ‘Trad Dads’. It gets reshared regularly by feeds with names like The Alpha Mind or GROWTH – and more mystifyingly to me, parent advice channels.
“The tra...
Buying a Katie Taylor hat for my daughter
The last person to turn Croke Park into a boxing ring was Muhammad Ali. The home of the Gaelic games welcomed the Greatest in 1972, and last night 82,000 people filled the Dublin stadium again to watch their greatest, Katie Taylor, fight fo...
5 picture books you can read 100 times and not hate (part 2)
Please excuse our heatwave-suffering garden
Is there a better feeling on this earth than your toddler picking up a picture book, crawling over to you and doing that backwards plonk thing into your lap? It’s my favourite part of the day, ev...
A chat with CBeebies’ Nick Cope, the Bob Dylan of kids’ entertainers
Every night, before we take Olive up to bed, we let her watch exactly 5 minutes of television. OK – sometimes it ends up being 10 minutes, or maybe 15. That’s because the only show we let her watch, Nick Cope’s Popcast, is 5 minutes per epi...
The existential terror of fatherhood
Is heightened vulnerability to the news the price we pay for love?
My biggest fear, waiting to become a father, was that it would plunge me into a giant vat of anxiety. I pictured myself unwilling to let our daughter out of my sight, worry...
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Author of Good Anger (Bloomsbury, 2025). Writing here about fatherhood.
internationally bestselling author of books including Hark, How Women Listen; and Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil Sisterhood. I write savour, a newsletter about writing, motherhood and the delicious things in life.
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