Fatherhood – Mental Health – Parenting – Autism – Happy Life
Mental Injury- Why we are overlooking mental health in childhood and adulthood?
Did you ever ask yourself: Is everything alright with me? Am I crazy or broken? Week by week, I feel like I'm getting crushed by reality and don't know how this will end. If I will be able to pull it through. I'm losing it, really. I don't want pity, I don't want your...
How to support fathers? Can we make this a standard systemic practice?
As a Father and Child Wellbeing Worker, we support many families across our city. This is pure symbiosis, I give them some support, I can learn about their life, see their perspective and learn about them - this makes me think and reflect about my own life, my own...
“The A Word” book give away on The Apparently.com
I would like to share with you our story. Got an idea to send 10 signed copies of my book "The A Word" to the lucky winners. As humans, we are experiencing difficult times. Many parents of children with additional needs are worried. Our children became anxious, some...
How do I toughen up my child? The answer is: You don’t! No to tough children!
Recently I had a chance to watch and reflect on someone's Instastory- someone I knew back from high-school. Now a father, who on social media boasting about being tough and teaching his children how to be tough, 25 years ago, when I knew him back then, he was a kind...
Ed Sheeran and I – 6 facts about the man behind The Apparently
How old are you? Twenty? Somewhere around thirty? Forty? I bet that during your lifetime you made a few crazy decisions. Got few secrets and strange, random facts which you could share and no one would expect that from you. Our personalities, our way of seeing the...
“Storytelling and fatherhood are both creations of love and attachment”- Tim Porteus – Rockin’ Dads
Interview with Tim Porteus - storytelling legend but most of all, devoted dad! Today I have an amazing opportunity to introduce to you another Rockin' Dad- Tim Porteus. Scottish storyteller, author and columnist. Campaigner for gender equality and social justice. Tim...