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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.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

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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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.

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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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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

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.

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.

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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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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

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.

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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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.

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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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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

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.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What to do when the baby only wants his mother

The preference is real and it isn't a verdict on you. The way through it's taking full ownership of things nobody else touches.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

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

The handoff, the tray you set up at nine, the diaper change in the dark, and the part nobody tells you about getting the baby back down.

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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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The bedtime routine that gives you your evening back

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

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Most discipline problems are consistency problems

Fewer rules, said once, enforced every time. The unglamorous method that still works when you're tired and outnumbered.

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What your kid actually needs from you on the sideline

Most of being a good sports dad is knowing when to keep your mouth shut, and the rest is showing up to the games nobody cares about.

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