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Parenting is tough. It's also hilarious, annoying, brilliant craic, dangerous and soul destroying in small, and sometimes big measures. This podcast is for all the Dads and Mums who know this all too well, or indeed for anyone thinking of becoming a parent, or anyone who knows a parent. Caked in snot and puke this is the unvarnished truth of being a Dad.
Featuring the ramblings of Adrian Barry, Nathan Murphy, Dave McIntyre and Ger Gilroy, the Dadcast will examine the worst excesses of sleep deprivation, unruly toddlers, inopportune poohs and escaping from the trap of middle age spread.
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It's the final episode of the series and the dads are ready to tackle your biggest issues!Any topics or questions you want their (questionable) advice on? Email thedadcast@offtheball.com!@DadcastPod | @NiveaUK
The Dads are back and the summer fear is officially setting in...Any topics or questions you want their (questionable) advice on? Email thedadcast@offtheball.com!@DadcastPod | @NiveaUK
The dads are gearing up for the biggest day of the year (no, not US Open Sunday Nathan...), it's almost Father's Day!Any topics or questions you want their (questionable) advice on? Email thedadcast@offtheball.com!@DadcastPod | @NiveaUK
That's rare is wonderful, as the dads are back after the Bank Holiday weekend, for a second podcast in two weeks!This week, Ger Gilroy, Adrian Barry, Nathan Murphy and Dave McIntyre grapple with a massive dilemma: whether to tidy up their kid's playroom or not!Dadcast is in partnership with Nivea Men. Try Ireland's No.1 Skincare brand.
This season of Dadcast is rolling on! Ger is joined by the usual suspects of Adrian, Dave and Nathan. Make sure to keep an eye on the Dadcast twitter account for any upcoming news about when The Dadcast go on the road!#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
Three-quarters of the Dadcast showed up for work today (or depending who you ask, did the opposite of what they were supposed to...), while a lonely Adrian virtually hangs out in the background. Dumping sh*tty underwear, explaining sportwashing and fighting over being helpful - the dads have got it all this week!Any topics or questions you want their (questionable) advice on? Email thedadcast@offtheball.com!@DadcastPod | @NiveaUK
It's an international Dadcast this week! Your emails, nights away and board games - we've got it all!#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
The dads are finally back together after Nathan's trip to America (it's no Centre Parks though)!#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
The dads are back once more and fully of life's most philosophical parenting questions...#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
The dads are back and as all over the place as usual, so strap yourself in for S3 Ep.3 of The Dadcast (yes Adrian, that is where we're at)!#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
Team Dadcast are back and as concerned as ever... when will Dave's son hold his hand for the last time, will the teenage years be as bad as Nathan fears, will Adrian ever stop falling asleep on the sofa...#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
Whether you want it or not, THE DADCAST IS BACK! Yes, the whole crew is back together - Ger Gilroy, Nathan Murphy, Dave McIntyre & Adrian Barry are reunited and apparently, still struggling at this whole parenting thing...Email the dads your own screw-ups - Dadcast@OffTheBall.com!#Dadcast | @NiveaUK
This is it - "the good stuff has dried up" says Dave, but that's not all. The Dads go out with a bang - one is having another baby and one has finally got the snip. Find out who in our last ever episode - complain bitterly to dadcast@offtheball.com
Ger, Dave and Nathan are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting.
Dave discusses his son's last day of Montessori.
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Enjoy!
The dads are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting.
No Ger this week but we have a very special guest to step in, Irish rugby legend Paul O'Connell.
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This episode of Dadcast is brought to you with thanks to Gillette. #BestFaceForward
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Ger, Dave, Nathan, and Adrian are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting.
For once, some of the dad's wish they were older, they others reach the vaccine cohort.
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Enjoy!
Ger, Dave, and Adrian are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting.
Email them your problems - a problem shared is top-quality content after all! Dadcast@offtheball.com
Enjoy!
Nathan, Dave, Ger and Adrian are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting. Email them your problems - a problem shared is top-quality content after all! Dadcast@offtheball.com
No Ger this week but Nathan, Dave, and Adrian are back this week with more tales from their misadventures in parenting. This week see the kids back to sport and the terrible twos!
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Enjoy!
All four dads are back this week. We'd love to hear from you - fire your questions our way dadcast@offtheball.com
This week the dads are wondering about the preparation for xmas, Dave's co-parent is dishing out the strikes in their new three strikes policy in real time and everyone is dealing with the existential crisis de nos jours.
Email Dadcast@offtheball.com or tweet @dadcastpod with your complaints, ideas and whatever else you're having...
Questions this week are including, but not limited to, do parents of teenagers ever get laid? Are balance bikes the way forward? What's good to binge now you've finished your tv.
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A mix of topics on this week's Dadcast as Lockdown 2.0 gets underway. This time the ones having the trouble sleeping aren't the kids, it's the Dads. Also getting the confidence to bring your kids cycling on the roads - when do you want to do that? And a thought provoking letter from a listener to dadcast@offtheball.com has the Dads thinking about how to broach the topic of racism with your kids, and when you might do it.
How involved are you in your kids' sports teams? Are you a whistle and tracksuit person or, like Nathan, are you in your suit barking instructions to make sure the centre-halves have split and the rondo is functioning? What's wrong with a bit of ambition anyway? Better living through vicarious-try?
It's all the big questions this week - like the time Nathan had the bejeesus scared out of him by an expert visiting the school who asked - what age are you happy for your kids to see porn? because that's the age you get a phone. Yikes.
Dave commentates on his kids. And inspired by a letter to the paper's agony aunt the Dad's talk hearing your old pair having sex, and ultimately being that old pair at some point.
And remember join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
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This week the dads, Ger Gilroy, Dave McIntyre, Adrian Barry and Nathan Murphy, talk about the absence of sleep and why it is a proper form of torture. Also where do you stand on co-sleeping? The kicks to the face, the shouting in your face, the constant terror of being awoken by a head-butt from the crown of an alien life-form in your bed. Sounds awesome right?
An anonymous but friendly listener also chastises us for our plans around going out to eat. We need to be more disciplined and make an effort, and stop allowing our kids to ruin our lives. Good advice or pie in the sky?
There's a story of a week lost in school to a Covid test, a dysfunctional testing process and the grim reality that this is likely to be everyone's existence for the next few months as the coughs go around and around and around. Like Nirvana crooned - "pass it back and forth, from my mouth to yours..." That lyric may be misremembered but I'm blaming it on a lack of sleep.
Dadcast also ponders the question about how much information is too much? What are the words and concepts to explain racism, Trump, Covid etc to your kids and how much should you shield them from?
And remember join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
The Pod is also on twitter @dadcastpod.
From now on your weekly dose of misadventures in parenting will be brought to you by Cadbury Freddo Treasures, Discover the New Freddo Treasures, The Space Series with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons and one surprise toy in every chest.
Friend of the show, Dr Emmett Byrne, joins the Dads to terrorize/explain to Dave exactly how a vasectomy works. He is a urologist, as well as a former Leinster and Ireland prop. This will be our final show talking about your mickey for a while given how much time we've spent on it, so fill your boots and luxuriate in the details of the actual instruments used, how it won't affect your sex-drive, or your experience of sex, other than to make you certain you're not having another baby. We even get into reversals and how they work. And there's bonus material of the doctor in Kildare who got shot by an unhappy customer!
There's more information here, and the podcast is longer, than you ever thought you needed about the fine art of vasectomy. This will either confirm 100% you are doing the right thing or scare you off for life. Dave is uncertain, but we will never hear from him again on this matter until after the fact.
Our thanks to Dr Emmett Byrne - you can get more information on how to avail of his services here
And remember join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
The Pod is also on twitter @dadcastpod.
From now on your weekly dose of misadventures in parenting will be brought to you by Cadbury Freddo Treasures, Discover the New Freddo Treasures, The Space Series with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons and one surprise toy in every chest.
This week's Dadcast has all the dads, talking about tantrums in restaurants, patience with working from home wearing thin and reader's letters are curiously obsessed with the snip.
A very detailed email this week has left the Dad's divided on how they feel about the potential for their future fertility to the point where things are hurtling towards a resolution next week. Seriously.
Also what do you do when your kid just won't calm down at a restaurant, nothing - not even the hypnotic power of YouTube will help. Should you move? Do you tough it out? What can alleviate the pain and embarrassment? Do you care? Probably not at this point.
Loads of correspondence this week - join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
The Pod is also on twitter @dadcastpod
From now on your weekly dose of misadventures in parenting will be brought to you by Cadbury Freddo Treasures, Discover the New Freddo Treasures, The Space Series with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons and one surprise toy in every chest.
On this week's Dadcast, Nathan is all up for a bit of shame making it difficult for parents to send their kids to school. A SWAT team of shame. Also is a runny nose the definition of sick these days? Yikes.
Dave and Ger are slowly learning to accept that perhaps the punishment beatings meted out by their larger siblings is just a part of growing up for young 'uns these days.
It's a correspondence week this week on Dadcast, with Nathan, Ger and Dave answering some readers queries and listening intently to the continuing descriptions of the snip. Nathan also finally reveals the ingenious way he got a full refund from the hotel in Spain he'd recommended to everyone. It involves tempting fate a little and may hasten his decision to have his tubes tied, just in case.
Loads of correspondence this week - join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
The Pod is also on twitter @dadcastpod
From now on your weekly dose of misadventures in parenting will be brought to you by Cadbury Freddo Treasures, Discover the New Freddo Treasures, The Space Series with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons and one surprise toy in every chest.
They f**k you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
Dave was channeling his inner Philip Larkin and worrying his kids by worrying that they might worry. Confused? Don't worry, it'll all make sense.
This week an expectant Dad wants to know will he suddenly not be lazy once the baby arrives, or is this it? Dave reveals that his kids were basically good sleepers so it's not going to be that hard, that doesn't go down really well.
And our now weekly snip update suggests it's less painful than you might think. And we're back to scheduling.
Adrian is tired and stressed by working at home and may need to make a distress call. Again.
And the report of Nathan's holidays were so hot we had to use asbestos gloves.*
Loads of correspondence this week - join the party, we'd love to hear from you - you can email dadcast@offtheball.com or you can leave a review on iTunes here
The Pod is also on twitter @dadcastpod
From now on your weekly dose of misadventures in parenting will be brought to you by Cadbury Freddo Treasures, Discover the New Freddo Treasures, The Space Series with Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons and one surprise toy in every chest.
*they may have been lost in the mists of time too.
We have an update on the pooing in public situation from Adrian. Dave had posed the question last week about getting your kids in to sport and there are plenty of opinions on offer from our listeners. They emailed us on dadcast@offtheball.com or they tweeted us @dadcastpod
This week the Dad's talk about summer camps, going out for the first time in ages, Dave's tan and how going back to school might look.
Oh look, is that a cloud? This and some other questions you might not be ready to answer - share your experiences on dadcast@offtheball.com
A pair of the dads have been having dreams recently where they end up divorced. One of them corrects himself to say nightmare. Then it turns out break-up dreams are fairly regular. Are they? dadcast@offtheball.com
Oh just because Joe Wicks says you have to schedule sex now its OK? Some of the dad's aren't buying the phone alarm as the sign to get romantic.
Also what the hell is going to happen when the kids go back to school?
Living can seem hard enough at the moment, but what happens when someone you love dies during Covid-19? This week's episode is a rumination on grief as Dave talks about the sudden death of one of his oldest friends who leaves behind a shocked young family.
There's a metaphor in having your kid pooh in the park, we're just too tired and strung out to make it. This week the dad's talk housework, being down in the dumps, Dave's mantra is working for our listeners and more.
This week Dave reveals a new mantra for dealing with the inevitable anger that is a constant during parenting. It's surprisingly simple, and so far, effective. He reluctantly tells the story of how he got there, forever known now as #scootergate. But hey, aren't all journeys journey's of discovery?
Will working from home be part of all our lives from now on? How's the eating and drinking going and what about the exercise to counter-balance it? This week's episode is coming to grips, slowly, with a new reality and beginning to find a toolkit for dealing with our new reality.
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Nose jizz, joggers, coughers, and the chance to change your life, traffic on the M11, pile-on's, boozing only 5 nights a week and much much more. Email dadcast@offtheball or better still rate us on iTunes
Dave poses the question does this time with your kids improve or dis-improve your relationship with them? And what of his plans for the snip? The power of nightmares? Ger's been having them. And booze, lots of booze, so much that it literally arrives mid-show.
It's not really quarantine if someone can cough in your face is it? Just don't cough in Dave McIntyre's face, or maybe anyone's. And don't ask someone to keep their social distance if you're not prepared to be threatened. Quarantine is going well for the Dads so far!
A welcome respite? Hell no! This is an all Covid-19 version of the Dadcast but we need your ideas dadast@offtheball.com for any diversions. Or hit us on twitter @dadcastpod
Advice corner - some people thought it would be a good idea to ask these chumps advice, what could go wrong? Adrian's policy on swearing has come back to bite him - fkn hll! We're also answering some queries from listeners who surely must at the point of no return if they're asking the dads for help.
You are not alone. It turns out most parents are undergoing the same trials and tribulations. This week the dad's open the mailbag for some unadulterated feedback. Email them dadcast@offtheball.com or hit them up on twitter @dadcastpod
2020 starts with tales of Christmas woe, new years resolutions and more. Email the Dads dadcast@offtehball.com or leave a review, tweet the Dads at twitter.com/dadcastpod
Dave, Nathan and Ger talk about surviving the festive season in the final Dadcast of 2019. Have a great Christmas - feel free to email us on dadcast@offtheball.com or tweet us @dadcastpod
Well you'd think with a visitor in the house the lads would tidy up their act, but hey why change the habit of a lifetime? Gordon D'arcy has a couple of kids, a clatter of medals and caps for Ireland and is now the author of a book that's earning rave reviews from kids and grown-ups alike. He joined the lads to chat through his career, being a Dad and writing for kids. Enjoy. Email dadcast@offtheball.com or leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
Waaay too many tough questions being posed on this week's show, luckily the lads aren't taking their mistakes, shouting and phone addictions too seriously.
So this may have been resting in the audiobank a few weeks at this point. Enjoy! Dave, Nathan and Adrian take you through the trials, tribulations and craic.
Adrian curses a lot through this show, so be warned. Should random Irish companies have sleep pods? Probably not but the Dads waste a good five minutes on it anyway, remember the times you could just have random chats? This is freeform, almost jazz-like parenting. Sibling rivalry, sleep deprivation and loads more. Email us on dadcast@offtheball.com
It turns out whenever you have a miscarriage a load of people you know will tell you they've had one too. It's like a shitty secret club you don't really want to be in, but once you're there you're glad the room is full. Nathan and Ger talk about their personal experiences and how different it can be for the Dads and Mas (is the plural of Ma really Mas?).
They also talk this week about the bits of advice they wished they'd got earlier - have your kids young and book your holidays in October/November. Plus there's a ringing endorsement for a particular family hotel in Gorey from Ger! (It's Amber Springs).
This week's guest is Peter Cosgrove, author of Family Fun Unplugged. His new book is packed full of puzzles, tricks and riddles to keep families talking instead of screen-timing. The chat is wide-ranging and touches on when's good to get your kids a phone, the dangers inherent in it and how to navigate the choppy transition from kid to teenager.
In Part 2 Nathan also reveals why he's been controversially snubbed by the school PTA after an attempted carve-up went wrong.
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Dave, Nathan and Adrian are in studio to chew the fat about nights out, lack of sleep, going back to the start and revealing the family secrets. One take is that no matter what we say it's nothing on what our kids are saying in school.
McIntyre has come prepared this week and he has lots of questions which we delve into in the 39th version of Dadcast...
Kevin Kilbane's dog piractically takes over the entire show which ultimately leads to Kev promising he'll do a full episode some day with us. We'll see if that actually happens, bit like his Ireland career, we live in hope, eh?? REVIEW THIS SHOW ON ITUNES PLEASE - JUST CLICK HERE
The Dads are back in studio, in captivity, Adrian refuses to let us talk about the Picnic. Dave's snip deadline comes up in his absence and there's more talk of the dangers of the snip...
Paul Howard joins Dave, Adrian and Ger in studio to talk about being the parent of one of Ireland's most dysfunctional yet beloved families.
The first-ever Dadcast on the road is potentially the last one we'll ever be allowed to do. Dave makes a promise to a bunch of strangers that his wife has been asking him for years; Ger + Nathan reveal too much about recent trips to the pharmacy; Adrian tops the pregnancy snoring revelation. No really.
Do you lose your bottle when you become a dad? Probably, but does it come back and when? Does it matter? Dave has help with the soother removal and Adrian is giving up current affairs...
A fairly typical week of mixed emotions from all the Dads. Dave won't get the snip but that's not why he's crying, Adrian's a whizz at potty training, Nathan is feeling virtuous for battling the rain in Mayo and Ger is spreading germs with impunity.
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All the dads are back this week and respond to a couple of brilliant emails. The first one is a parent who is having a wonderful experience after the birth of their first child and doesn't want to ruin his perfect life. The second one is just class and you'll have to listen to the pod to find out why. There's also a super positive review of staycations and a couple of hotel recommendations. Email the dads - dadcast@offtheball.com or tweet @dadcast and review the show here
This week's chaotic episode features three sweaty men in a bedroom in Lahinch, Dave McIntyre's free week of going out and living, Ger's bad parenting and the horror of kids talent shows. There's also the existential dread of living in the climate change world - what kind of life will our kids really have? Review the show here and email your complaints or ideas to us on dadcast@offtheball.com
The burning question this week - Could the seven-year-old mind the other two? Even for twenty minutes? Also will you booze with your kids when they're teenagers or is that just asking for trouble...
Plus Dave updates the nappy training episode with advice from a 3 time All Ireland winner and tells all about a lovely day out for the family. If anyone has any advice for nice days out then email here dadcast@offtheball.com or tweet @dadcastpod
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Dave is not free to come into the studio because he's potty training. Or rather he's training his son to use the potty. He's had just the one accident so far, or rather his son has. BOOM. Where is Nathan anyway? He must be at his kids school sports day. That's the only potential reason for him to miss this, right?
The podcast reaches peak Dadcast and Dave actually reads off the contents of the TUC crackers from his own house. Adrian praises his own parenting, again. And we deal with the slew of emails coming in - if you want your name accidentally read out then email the dads on dadcast@offtheball.com or hit them up on twitter @dadcastpod. Alternatively, leave a review here and help them spread the word.
Nathan, Dave and Ger are back this week to talk about refusing to eat bad food, the slow death of your soul as you serve up plain pasta and tuning your kids out when they're completely mental in public. One of the dad's eldest kids goes camping with the beavers and a first visit to school for next years junior infants intake leaves one dad totes emosh.
We also learn the great art of not saying what you think when your partner is joining the kids melt-down, not ringing home when the rows are ablaze and more, much more. The reviews are great - keep them coming here
Nathan gives us a blow by blow by blow by blow account of his holidays. Dave correctly identifies it as 'boring but informative' and as ever, he's right. But we all know how hard it is to find a holiday that makes sense for kids and adults alike so this is worth your while. Adrian takes it too far when he asks for details about what happens when the kids are away in kids club.
This was supposed to be a sex free episode, (a bit like a marriage, wha? AY-OOOH), but we did have an email into dadcast@offtheball.com which brought the topic up right at the start. Dave, not having listened to the last two episodes, didn't even miss a beat in answering the question du jour - do you have to schedule sex?
Will our kids ever leave our homes? No is the answer, so nest well and settle down for a long time spent with your kids. It'll be fine. Sibling rivalry, kids fighting and follow up to having no time for nookie.
This week the Dads ponder the question of busy schedules, too busy for the good stuff? Also traveling with kids and enjoying the journey, literally and philosophically.
The dads discuss the ethics of carrying out one of your empty threats, like say abandoning your child at the side of the road on a road trip. The kids swearing meme returns as experimentation with The F Word sweeps the culture. Rate, like and share this podcast which according to the good people here is the most relatable on the internet...
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This week's show is brought to you by big willys, missing vests, all the Easter chocolate and more misadventures in parenting...
McIntyre is back and dropping wisdom like a new hip hop track on a music service no-one asked for. Nathan has a friend who asked what to do about his kid being hit by the kid of the coach of his kid's football team - confused? So are we. Then Ger asks which toilets he should bring his 7 year old to, at the game in the Aviva? It goes a bit weird for a while after that but don't hold it against Nathan. OH BURIED THE LEAD - Adrian had to call for the SWAT team to rescue him after an hour minding the kids alone. Is calling your wife to come home after an hour worse than telling everyone she snored during pregnancy on a podcast? Find out this week. Rate these clowns performance here - And email your specific issues to dadcast@offtheball.com
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On tonight's show the Dads discuss the fallout from previous revelations they've made on the show, there is no reference to Adrian's wife's snoring (contractual denial of this) and we open the mail bag for the torrent of abuse and questions coming our way. Join in, get pregnant and lose your mind to your children's madness, it's delightful at the bottom of the slippery slope.
As part of the 20X20 initiative aimed at increasing participation, attendance and coverage of women's sport there's an entire discussion to be had around the role that Dads play in making sure girls get access early and often to a range of sports. We've got some champion Dads in today as special guests, in Kieran Donaghy and Andy Lee, both of whom have daughters. And three of the usual Dad's are here too - Nathan, Ger and Adrian are back with their usual bad advice. This was recorded ahead of time and supposed to drop on International Women's Day, but it was too good to hold on to.
(And also Nathan took last week off so we'd no show. Sue me.)
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Week 18 and the Dad's are talking about taking the Dadcast on the road for a brand new Dadcast Roadshow that might involve pints and the stuff we're not allowed to say on the podcast. How's that sound?
Adrian has a cheat for Candy Crush, having reached level 3,775. Does this somehow make him a bad parent? Well he's been judging all our mailbaggers so feel free to judge away! Send your email queries to dadcast@offtheball.com and use the hashtag #dadcast
This week it's phones, other people's older kids and their bad influence, bedtime routine disasters and the rest....
Andy Lee, former middleweight Champion of The World, joins the Dads this week to talk about getting over sleep issues, recommends a programme to follow that's starting to work for them and how having a child made him not want to fight anymore.
Nathan is so tired he can barely remember the chaos of getting everyone out to school this morning, but we'll come back to the routine of chaos aka The School Run again. Adrian has a cinematic moment at an Irish funeral and Ger says cry it out...
Share your stories of sleep deprivation, solution or whatever - dadcast@offtheball.com or just hit the #dadcast
A mailbag special - hit us up on dadcast@offtheball.com to be included - this week delves into the remarkable ability of a child's pooh to bob up and down on the top of the water; is pregnancy but no kids enough of a pass to colonize the family changing rooms at the swimming pool.
Pregnancy test kits and why you always have to ask for them? Can't you just put them beside the bloody till? Also one of the dads is playing golf and getting pissed just as the test shows two blue lines...
Also more from snoregate "my wife's pregnancy snoring was just normal snoring" - it's possible to misinterpret that, right?
Hit us at the hashtag #dadcast
A live realtime childcare emergency prompts the discussion every couple hates - the kids are sick, or the childminder can't come, who stays home? And who bears grudges! Next week's episode will be a mailbag special with a few doozys already in the bag - join them with an email to dadcast@offtheball.com or #dadcast on twitter. Don't forget to rate the pod on itunes or spotify or wherever you get your pods.
Adrian has been spreading his wings on the actual radio railing against a tweet from a dad that went viral about how it's not always a winner to have kids. He's happy to break the no judging rule in this one off case. Also what are you most looking forward to getting back once your kids are old? Email dadcast@offtheball.com; use the hashtag #dadcast; or follow us on twitter.com/dadcast
We're asking for a friend, called D McIn, no Dave Mc, no Rodney. Is there anything that puts you in a worse mood than having an argument with your barely sentient child? How do you convince a child who thinks you are crazy that you're not crazy even though you're acting crazy? And why do we get so crazy? Who knows. Answers to these and other questions to dadcast@offtheball.com or just use the hashtag #dadcast or tweet @dadcastpod
Baby proofing your house - pointless money waster or a soothing balm for your anxiety?
Also a torn ear lobe has lots of blood in it, who knew? One of the dad's had to make the phone call - "there's been a bit of an accident, we're on the way to the A+E".
Talking injuries, crawling from the cot, Creches Vs child minder and loads more. Email dadcast@offtheball.com or use the hashtag #dadcast on Twitter
Apologies if you have little ears during this episode, there is some frankly disgusting language from everyone involved. Mostly it's reporting what our kids are saying though, that's our excuse and we're sticking to it. Nathan talks about the joys of being co-opted into the PTA in his absence, the school Christmas fare. Dave wonders about sweary kids, Adrian swears like a sailor and Ger explains why his daughter isn't swearing on purpose. Fork AND Spoon. #dadcast follow us on facebook - occasionally we update it. Also dadcast@offtheball.com for your stories, complaints or advice. We need advice.
For various reasons the 4 Dads have occasion to travel, sometimes it's spurious, others it's because there's a big game on that needs covering. Or in Nathan's case he just had to go to the Euros for a month because those midweek press conferences won't cover themselves. What did happen in the OTB flat in Versailles? Dave is on a junket in Philadelphia, feeling the brotherly love but is he crying because he's missing his kids or because the movie on the plane was sad? Tune in, download, share, hit them up on @dadcastpod or email dadcast@offtheball.com
Ger was uploading this, that's why it's two days late and the intro is badly mixed. Worth waiting for though as Adrian's nappy brain is evident as he's still on holidays with the new baby. We talk birthday party chaos but The Dads can top the story of our listener/watcher who helpfully sent in pictures of his daughter's scalping at the hands of her sister
Dave's literal sack of s$^t, more on shopping ingredients and Adrian is away because he's had a baby. Well you know what we mean.
Should you drink in front of your kids, or rather how much is the right amount? Plus Adrian spills more beans on late pregnancy issues, annoying his wife, due dates and more. Plus we open the mail bag - dadcast@offtheball.com with multiple stories reacting to Dave's tale of confronting parental parking space thieves. Nathan has had to change supermarkets after his croissant thieving child story, pretzels are too hard to eat in one sitting apparently...
6 episodes in and it turns out this podcast is turning into a support group for new dads. Adrian is not drinking because he is on the clock - to use his own phrase "the landing gear is down". Dave is sneaking into creche, there's a coffee table pooh story and there's more crying. Crying laughing of course.
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This will prove to be the most controversial one yet. Pregnancy snoring is described in intense, minute detail, complete with sounds and vibrations. Episode 5 is in the books, the Dads are responding to the reviews - good and bad - "incredibly negative, I'm not sure these people deserve to be parents". Luckily we don't need a license. Also we talk about the secret joy of doing the weekly shop - time alone, chance to listen to podcasts. Hit us on dadcast@offtheball.com or @dadcastpod on twitter.
How to fail at parenting, episode 4. Eating three bowls of chilli, all the bolognese and what happens when your kids just won't eat. Should you just starve the kids and let them learn the hard way or make six different dinners every night in the hope they'll eat something, anything??? Hangry kids, serve yourself first and Dave is examining the contents of your shopping trolley.
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We're doing some hospital stories here, including the meningitis scare, bumps and bruises, nebulisers are more. Plus there are more labour ward and holding pen stories. Including the difference between c-sections and "natural" births, and whatever you're having yourself.
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Nathan has another baby which immediately leads to a conversation about the snip. The dads' price up the snip during the show and talk about why they're so squeamish about 'having someone tricking around down there'. Is it laziness or fear that has prevented the Dads from having it done?
Also sleep. The Sleep Delusion. Sleep deprivation. Cry it out? What even is sleep anymore?
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The Off The Ball Dads, Nathan, Adrian, Dave and Ger talk about their experience of being Dads, the build up and aftermath of the labour ward and what happens when the kids get home!