First Time Dads

Have you ever wondered how much damage you might be doing to your child if you shout in front of them?
Have you every worried that, by getting angry in front of your little one, you have psychologically scarred them in some way?

You are not alone.

Rich and Steve have asked themselves those questions on many occasions - so they invited clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox onto the podcast to give them some answers.

Lucy, author of Blueprint: How Our Childhood Makes Us Who We Are, reveals the often fascinating truth about attuned parenting, attachment and the importance of the early days in determining the person your baby will become. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Pablo Fernandez and his husband Mike adopted their son Charlie when he was six years old. 
Pablo joins Rich and Steve to talk about being a gay father. He explains the challenges and the rewards of adoption, the added scrutiny which comes with being gay parents and leads our hosts to the realisation that parenting is parenting… whatever your situation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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TV presenter Julia Bradbury went through FIVE rounds of IVF treatment before having her twin girls at the age of 43. 
But what does that ACTUALLY mean?

Injections, miscarriages, strained relationships… and that's just for starters.

Julia joins Rich and Steve to explain what her and her husband went through during the all-encompassing, life-altering emotional rollercoaster of fertility treatment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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It's one of every young father's worst nightmares: losing the mother of your child.
Mark Duffy lost his wife Nicola to cancer last year and has been writing a blog - thewidoweddaddydiaries.com - about raising his daughter Grace while dealing with his grief.

So, when the worst happens and mummy dies, what does life for a now one-parent family look like? How do you continue to function? And how does your relationship with your child change?

In this podcast, Mark tries to answer all those questions, while explaining to Rich and Steve how his amazing three year-old daughter has become the glue which has held an entire family together. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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You know how we all struggle to get our kids to sleep? Turns out it's because we've all been doing it wrong.
Both exhausted thanks to their children refusing to go down at night, Steve and Rich invited Sarah Ockwell-Smith - renowned parenting author and mother of four - onto the podcast to discuss her extensive scientific research into the art of getting babies to sleep.

After a long chat about lighting, sound, sociology, evolution, physics and everything in between, both Steve and Rich are still reeling from her many revelations… For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Fresh from having her second child, the TV presenter tells Steve and Rich about going anonymous in online forums, what a mum needs from her husband second time around and why she doesn't want to be an over protective parent. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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Clare Pooley thought she was a normal, successful mother of three… until she realised the pressures of parenthood had taken her alcohol intake to dangerous new levels. 
Ten bottles of wine a week, to be precise. 

Now teetotal and author of the critically acclaimed 'The Sober Diaries', Clare joins Rich and Steve to discuss how and why having a baby can make any mum or dad turn to a bottle of their own… For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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You're settling into life as a dad. Your little guy or girl is starting to get used to you and your partner. You are beginning to feel like you might just about be getting the hang of this parenting business.   
And then, BAM! Suddenly it's time to send him or her to nursery… and you're back to being entirely clueless.

Join Rich and Steve as they discuss/rant about the horrors and pressures of finding the right nursery for your child - and explain why the whole process can quickly make you feel like a lousy parent if you don't handle it correctly. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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The Tiger Who Came To Tea, the much loved children's classic, was first published 50 years ago.
Judith Kerr, the 94 year-old who wrote and illustrated the book back in 1968, tells Steve and Rich how she has seen the nature of childhood change and develop over the years… and recounts her remarkable story about fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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TV star Tim Lovejoy - father to twin 15 year-old girls and a four year-old daughter - joins Steve and Rich to talk about how paranoia has crept into parenting… and about the struggle to find equality for both mum and dad For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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