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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Getting home for dinner is a logistics problem

Most dads who miss dinner aren't working longer hours than the ones who don't. They've just never done the arithmetic backwards from the plate.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Sit on your hands while your teenager learns to drive

The shouting isn't a discipline problem. It's a fear problem, and there are practical ways to keep it out of the car.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The year your son stops telling you things

He's not shutting you out on purpose. But the old ways of getting him to talk have stopped working, and the replacements aren't obvious.

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Take the pedals off and he'll ride by teatime

A seven-year-old can learn to ride in about ninety minutes, if you start with a spanner instead of a jog behind the saddle.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What a kid can actually do at five, eight, eleven and fourteen

Handing over chores costs you time for about three weeks. After that, it pays you back for the next decade.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The hardest player to coach will be your own kid

Playing time, the car ride home, and the handful of rules that stop one season from ending a sport your kid actually liked.

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What to settle before you hand over the first phone

The rules that survive contact with a thirteen-year-old are the physical ones. Everything else gets negotiated away by February.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Don't go quiet when your daughter turns thirteen

She'll stop volunteering information somewhere around year nine. The lifts, the standards and the small habits that keep the line open.

GuideRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

Pay it on Fridays and don't ask what they spent it on

A pocket money system that survives contact with a real nine-year-old, including the part where he wastes it and you say nothing.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Outlasting a toddler tantrum without losing your temper

Get lower, get quieter, stop negotiating. The rest is timing, logistics, and not caring what the man by the freezers thinks.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Your job in the first week home with a newborn

Hour by hour, what a father actually does between the hospital car park and day seven, including the parts nobody warns you about.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Eight seconds at the school gate

The goodbye you do on the first morning is the one your child will expect on every morning after it. Make it short, and make it the same.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Keep reading to them long after they can read themselves

Ten minutes, the same chair, a book slightly too hard for them. The one habit that survives shift work, bad moods and teenagers.

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Let the toddler carry the eggs

Putting the shopping away takes ten minutes alone and half an hour with a three-year-old. Do it the slow way anyway.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

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What to do when the baby only wants his mother

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How to run the 3am shift so your wife actually sleeps

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The bedtime routine that gives you your evening back

Bedtime takes ninety minutes in most houses. Forty is achievable, and the fix is boredom, not firmness.

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Teaching a kid to work before they're old enough to be paid

Work is a habit, not a wage. The years between three and thirteen are where it gets built, and most of it happens standing next to you.

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