Accidental House Life

What The What !? How much time is too much time for a 5 year old to spend on the computer? I know, honestly. Just re-read that question. 5 year old, computer, time, when did this happen? Trying telling your children that you didn't even have computers at your secondary school, let alone at home. It's like telling your childhood self that celebrities would openly show tattoos even if they hadn't been in prison, or that even having unlimited access to everything there'd still be nothing to watch on a Friday evening. So here's the issue. The wife and girl child are out so I ask boy child what would he like to do? The dream answers being, paint, draw, watch a movie or play a game. So what do I get? "Can I play on the computer Daddy?" Now before I go on a rant about technology blah blah blah, I do let my kids have computer time. They both own a v-tech Innotab and they both get to play on BBC bitesize but what have I done that means it's the fir

Previous Posts. October 9, 2013 I’m a stay at home dad. “Oh it must be so easy, at home all day, watching telly, eating biscuits and drinking brews whenever you want. Just a bit of tidying up in the afternoon and your day is done. Easy life.” There isn’t a mum or housewife who hasn’t heard a variant of the above, and there isn’t a stay at home parent who hasn’t steamed through their ears and momentarily forgotten their vow of non violence as in their mind they see a swift knee to the solar plexus (or lower) of the, usually, male distributor of domestic knowledge. But is it any different for a stay at home dad? Well, the short answer is YES. We men are different. Where the multitasking, multifunctioning mum just does, we men initially struggle. We are predisposed to order, we love lists (read any Chris Evans book if you don’t believe me), just doing takes effort (and normally a list) and a lot of time. Through this blog, I am to let the inner workings of a stay at home da

August 26, 2016 3 Years Have passed. Seven years ago I very proudly became a parent for the first, but not last, time. Three years ago I came up with the bright idea of writing a blog detailing my experiences as a stay at home dad, with the hope of helping out my fellow house husbands the world was beginning to hear about and relieve some of the stress from the actual job. However, as with most things in my life, the enthusiasm drained away and I stopped after 3 articles (the daytime TV interviews just didn’t happen and if I’m not going to meet Phil and Holly what was the point.) Why then, after 3 long years, am I doing it again? I could lie and talk of a sense of duty, or that I have a responsibility to continue to spread the word of the often mis-understood house dad. Was it because I saw the hundreds, nay, thousands of new bloggers treading all over the path I felt a little bit precious about? Well ‘no’ to all of that. Back in January 2015 I posted my articles on Google+ a