AGM: 12th March 2014
Come join us as we celebrate a successful year in the life of Fathers Network Scotland at The Melting Pot in Edinburgh on Wednesday 12th March, 2014.
Read moreGlasgow Workshop
Where's Dad? Father-Proofing Your Work.
Read moreWelfare Reform
In a bulletin on The Gender Impact of Welfare Reform concern is expressed over what is seen as a disproportionate impact on women as many benefit recipients are female (for example child benefit is often payable to the mother).
Read moreFathers Day!
COME JOIN US for an informal celebration of Fathers Day 12-2pm on Monday the 17th JUNE 2013
Read moreSeeing Dad
Sometimes I unexpectedly see My long-dead Father When I am fiddling.
Read more'And he being dead, yet speaketh.' A Father's Day Piece.
Each time I close, Each time I open The curtains, I see your picture On top of the piano.
Read moreVisiting Dad.
Bright sun dances off The Black marble And the shallow valleys Of the gold engraving.
Read moreFather & Son. Easter Piece.
He looks With round face and clear Dark eyes, Smiling with a gummy grin.
Read more'And I Won't Turn Out Like My Dad' said The Proclaimers.
Take 70 p 3s and p 4s. Dress them up like teenagers. Pack them into a big dark hot and sweaty space. Continually shine bright coloured, flashy lights in their little faces. Shout indecipherable messages at them through a horrendously loud and fuzzy P.A system like a North Korean Dictator.
Read moreLet Your Child Have You For A Day.
In the midst of a recent conversation at a parenting event I was attending I heard the phrase, "Sometimes I feel like I am just a taxi for my children!" It was said with a humorous grumpiness. How many of us have thought and felt the same, especially when you get the feeling that you are living your whole week at the local Leisure Centre and your children's times for their various classes are all higgledy piggledy and a logistical nightmare.
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