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New & expectant dads: share your views! The Department of Health is keen to find out what new and expectant dads think about a new (free) email service it's developing. Once launched, the service will bring dads a range of great parenting information and ideas (more information about this can be found in the survey). The survey will take around 10-12 minutes and you could be in with a chance of winning a £100 Amazon voucher. The results of the survey will be used to help improve the product; answers will remain anonymous. Thanks in advance - your feedback is very valuable. Please click here to start the survey. ALSO... do you know any dads whose partners suffered from post-natal depression? As part of the same service, the Department of Health and Royal College of Midwives are producing some films for the NHS Choices website. The TV production team who are making the films are looking for partners of women who’ve suffered from post-natal depression, to talk about their experiences. Ideally dads will be based in or around Bristol, and would be available for filming on Friday 17 February. Possible participants should email Claudia Guerretta or call her on 020 7833 3000 ext. 2076.

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Turn those Terrible Twos into Terrific Twos!

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	Turn those Terrible Twos into Terrific Twos!
	It’s hard work being a parent, but with the right support every parent can experience the joys of parenthood! The key to success is getting the basics right. But the basics don’t just come naturally! Parents need help in a format that is simple and easy to understand. They don’t want to be overloaded with too much information! That’s why Terrific Twos, containing only essential advice on safety, healthy eating, oral hygiene, keeping active and early learning is a great book to support all parents of two year olds. For a FREE e-sample call 01484 668008. Special half price offer available until 6th March click here, for more details.
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Lollibop Childrens Festival August 2012

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Dads Outdoors Project

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise!

A jogger, on his weekly run through the woods at the CS Lewis Nature Reserve, was stopped in his tracks on a mild December morning. Had he stumbled across a Teddy Bear’s Picnic? Spotted the notorious Gruffalo? Or worse still, the Big Bad Mouse? In actual fact, the jogger had come across a band of little explorers and their fathers from the Roundabout Children’s Centre, Headington. 13 fathers and 23 children had ventured down to the CS Lewis Nature Reserve in Risinghurst to take part in the Centre’s first Dads Outdoors session.

Dads Outdoors is a project involving 9 Children’s Centre’s across Oxfordshire. The project aims to enable fathers and their children to make better use of their local environment on a regular basis and to build local networks of support and collaboration. The Roundabout Centre’s first Dads Outdoors event made the usually tranquil forest come alive with activity as the children and fathers explored their surroundings, looking for creatures, and made Christmas decorations. It was a big surprise to the jogger who runs that route every weekend and rarely encounters another person.  

Despite living within minutes of the Nature Reserve, many of the group had never been their before. However, after spending the morning in the woods, all the dads vowed to come back again with the whole family. One father commented ‘I experienced a different aspect of play with my child…the forest side. The centre had planned to use the pond at the Nature Reserve to go pond dipping, but had to make some last minute rearrangements after discovering that pond dipping in winter can damage the pond life’s habitat. Instead, with a little bit of wire, the dads got creative and made Christmas stars, wreaths and even a forest crown in the woodland next to the pond. The children used magnifying glasses and small pots to search and collect minibeasts that ranged from earthworms to millipedes.

Over the coming months, the Roundabout centre will be organising monthly outdoor events. They will be coming back to the CS Lewis in the warmer months to carry out their pond dipping event as well as exploring other local locations with a different focus for each event. Oxfordshire has some fantastic outdoor spaces and through the Dads Outdoors project, local families will be finding out about places to go and things to do in their area.  To find out more, please contact the Roundabout Centre (01865 764952).

                             

 

Some comments from the dads:-

·        I will take my children (to the CS Lewis Nature Reserve) more regularly

·        We enjoyed collecting worms and making a star out of twigs

·        I shall visit the pond with my wife and family

·        We loved the fresh air and adventure: feeding ducks, finding bugs and playing in an adventurous environment

·        I shall go out next weekend with the children, just like today

·        Fresh air, good mix of dads, friendly, fun in the woods…it was great!

The other centres involved in the Dads Outdoors project are The East Street Centre and Britannia Road Children’s Centre (Banbury), Witney Children’s Centre, Elms Road Children’s Centre, Marston Northway Children’s Centre (Oxford), North Abingdon Children’s Centre, South Abingdon Children’s Centre and Wantage Children’s Centre. To find out about their programme of activities, please contact the appropriate children’s centre.