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When you think back to your childhood Christmases what is your favourite memory or what was your best family traditions? Is there any way we can recreate these with our own kids?
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Christmas is the perfect time of year to make life long memories. Pantos are a great opportunity to have fun together as a family. Why not look to go to a panto this year, doesn’t have to be expensive try your local amateur dramatics society for example.
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Only 22 days to go! Do you still need to do some Christmas shopping? Why not get your partner a little extra surprise.
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Why not sit down at some point in the next few days and help your children send a letter to Santa. It’s always fun and will give you some great one to one time.
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The word for the day is organisation so start to prioritise your to-do list at work. What is achievable before you break for Christmas and what will you pick up in the New Year? Make sure you chat about your thoughts with your boss of course!!
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There is nothing like the local Christmas lights to get you feeling festive. Why not plan a trip to visit the lights in your nearest big city this weekend or drive around town rating your neighbours houses.
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Scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second. Why not use dinnertime to talk about other world traditions and how they celebrate Christmas.
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"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh." It’s bound to snow this winter so have you got a toboggan yet? Remember there’s no memories like Snow memories!
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Family test over dinner tonight! What are Santa’s reindeer called? Don’t forget to Google for the answers before you get home and why you’re at it check out the story behind Rudolph, here’s the link.
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Did your childhood tree get decorated with bells you made from painted egg cartons at school? Originally, Christmas decorations were home-made paper flowers, or apples, biscuits, and sweets. It’s always nice to have things the kids made on the tree. Why not get creative with your kids, paper chains are easy!
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In 1647, the British Parliament passed a law making Christmas illegal. The ban was only lifted when Cromwell lost power in 1660. Are you getting fed up with the hype and feeling a bit of a Christmas Grinch? How can we make sure we engage with our kids’ excitement for Christmas to get us back in the mood?
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Are our kids giving gifts to their teachers? If so, is it also an opportunity for us to write a card thanking them for all they have done this year?
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When Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, died in 1894, he willed his November birthday to a friend who disliked her own Christmas birthday. What Christmas memories will we leave as an inheritance to our kids?
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In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the world's biggest ever snowman. He stood at 113ft tall. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! Why not post your pictures up on the forum in January.
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We tend to have more family arguments at Christmas than any other time of year. Chat with your partner over the next few days as to how you will both react to stress this year.
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Gold wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor. How are we teaching our kids to think about those less fortunate then us this Christmas? Is there a Christmas shelter for the homeless happening near us or maybe a FoodBank. If there is could we donate some food or blankets as a family.
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Cookies for Santa. Why not get in the kitchen and help make some cookies for Santa to eat on Christmas Eve.
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What is Christmas all about? How about visiting a Christingle service to spark discussions about world faiths?
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Only 5 working days left and today is going to be our last Monday in the office for a while – let's get on top of all our workload so you can leave for the holidays relaxed and not think about the office over the break.
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One of the highest-grossing festive movies is 2000's How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Do you have a family Christmas film? We always watch a version of Christmas Carol to get us festive. Check out this DadTalk forum link for some movie ideas.
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Another family test to get conversation flowing over the dinner table tonight - Can you list all the gifts mentioned in the song the "12 Days of Christmas"? Don’t forget to Google the answer.
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The greatest present you can give your kids this Christmas is a stress free relaxed dad. How can you achieve that?
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Is today your last day at work? Take time to leave everything at the office so Christmas can be about the family.
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Here is a great thing to do with the kids this evening track Santa on the NORAD website and don’t forget to leave the cookies and milk out too!
May the force be with you tomorrow. Take time to enjoy opening the gifts, eating the food but most of all relax don’t get flustered, remember your kids will simply enjoy you being around.
Recent Winners
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The winner of the Disney Princess Crayola competition was M V Harbut of Worthing. Congratulations
The winner of the LEGO Star Wars Shuttle was S.Bednarz of Hitchin whose son Robbie is over the moon with the win. Thanks to all 968 of you who entered.
The Wholegrain cereal competiton winners are: Jay Seagull of London, Laura Day-Henderson of Bridgend, Kulwinder Lombardelli of Rugby and Naim Spahia of Isleworth.
The Blokes guide to pregnancy goes to Jonathon Tayler - Congratulations!
The Blokes guide to babies winner is Peter Collins from Nottingham - enjoy!
The Haynes Dad Manual goes to Ross Taylor of Northampton - Well done.
The Haynes Baby Manual goes to Brian Willilmas from Merthyr Tydfil - Congratulations!
Congratulations to Mark Thomas who won the £50 Post Office Gift Card - Enjoy spending it!
The wonderful Flossie Crumbs book was won by Tony Ryan.
The brilliant Morrck Car seat Hoody was won by Mrs p Hamby from Manchester.
The winner of the fantastic High chair cover from Tidy Trays was Darren Mackenzie from Northampton. Congratulations!
The Handy Squad gave away 2 hours of Handy man time to Ms Lombardelli from London
The Luxury Baby Hamper was won by Mr and Mrs Franklin from Cornwall.
Our Christmas Crayola competition was won by Karl Ball from East Yorkshire and Geoff Owenson from Fife - Hope you and kids had fun with it!
The competition to win "Goodbye Pert Breasts " Was won by Stewart Millar from Darlington and Gerry Ellet from Norfolk - Enjoy!
KidsTravel2 Rucksack competition was won by Andy Walker - Well done!
The Dungeons competition winner of a family ticket was Karen Colbeck from Halifax, congratulations.
The Trunki Competition was a great success and the winners of the GoVinci rucksack were Andrea Tinkler, Doncaster. Rebecca Ball, Hants, and Laura Jones, Ledbury. Well Done to you.
The BoostApak was won through the forum competition and the winner's avatar is Simsik (identity and location remain anonymous) but you know who you are - well done!
Our Fantastic Tipi Competition saw a huge number of entries and the one lucky winner of an amazing 4 night break in a Cornish Tipi was Simon Harrington from Shropshire. Well done and have an amazing time. We are all very jealous here at DadTalk Towers!
Congratulations to the winner of the BT Baby Monitor, courtesy of Argos - Joe Hirst from Kent - The funniest thing he had heard his child say. MY DAUGHTER WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CHICKS THEY HAD AT SCHOOL; SHE SAID 'WE'VE GOT CHICKS, WE KEEP THEM IN A CALCULATOR!' Excellent!
Congratulations to our winners of the Gullivers Family Tickets - aboooo, dopelganger, simsik, simongraham, jesdads1, sweir1 - have a great day out!
The winners of the new Annabel Karmel "Top 100 Pasta Dishes" Book are Laurence Hartle from Cheshire and Lucinda Duxbury from Lancashire, Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dave Smith from Farringdon who won the £150 Red Letter Day Voucher.
Congratulations to the winner of the Family Ticket to The London Dungeons. His pseudonym is "Sildar" .
Congratulations to Mike Lambert from Liverpool who won a Mamas and Papas Buggy courtesy of Argos.
Mike Lambert wrote: "I've found Dadtalk to be one of the most informative and helpful website's on the internet. The articles I read are extremely useful and to win this buggy is just the icing on the cake. Thanks and keep up the good work!"
Congratulations to the winner of our Mothers day competition and recipient of £150 Red Letter Day Voucher - Gary Roe from Nottinghamshire.
Congratulations to the winner of our Gullivers Easter Competition and Family day pass was won by - Sue Law – Dorset, Alison Eardley – Kent, Simon Knight – Essex, Barry Sharples – Manchester and Cheryl Kean – Coventry.
The winner of the Dadtalk limited edition mug was won by Daisysdad.
Congratulations to the winner of our Valentines Competition - Shaun from Derbyshire, who has been with his partner for 10 years. Shaun said "I find the Dadtalk site and its daily tips really useful in my everyday life as a dad and i’m sure my partner is going to be blown away with the flowers and DVD. "
Congratulations to DadTalk Forum members zaden, j_c and Calito10 - who all won a Tomy Micro Pets-i each in our recent Tomy Competition.
Some of the websites we advertise our competitions on can be found here:
Free UK Competitions - Competitions Today
www.loquax.co.uk - Loquax Competitions
www.theprizefinder.com - The Prizefinder
www.offeroasis.co.uk - Offer Oasis
www.ukcompetitions.com - UK Competitions
Legal Eagle
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Here we discuss some of the legal issues that relate to being a Dad. If you would like free child law advice visit the Legal eagle section on the DadTalk forum.
Directory of Services
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Directory of Services
Other Useful Parenting Services
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Other Useful Parenting Support Services - Online
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Contact a Family Online |
We will help and encourage parents and carers of disabled children to use the web and social networking sites to get information and advice that supports them to look after their child. |
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Dads' Space |
A social networking website where fathers who are separated from their children can build and enhance their relationship by staying in contact and interacting online. |
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Got a Teenager? |
Gotateenager.org.uk provides a social networking site for parents of teenagers that recreates online the supportive ‘school gate’ community that parents really miss when their children go from primary to secondary school. |
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Live Talk |
Chat online to a trained Relate consultant in real time about problems in any area of your family relationships. |
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Netmums Parent Supporters |
Netmums Parent Supporters is a new service, |
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One Space |
We aim to create a community environment online, in which parents feel comfortable sharing their experiences. |
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The Couple Connection |
A positive relationship between parents is key to improving outcomes for children. This self-help website provides information and resources to parents who want to change their relationship for the better. |
