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. 
Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods.  
The book is for sale now in all good book shops.

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. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. The book is for sale now in all good book shops.

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.&nbsp;
Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. &nbsp;
The book is for sale now in all good book shops.

S1 Ep41: GUEST DAD ALERT: the dads welcome an author and parent of older kids to studio to enlist some help in the battle to keep kids off screens.

So we're still going 70-odd episodes in - feel free to start at the start or dip in and out. We love you either way. If you like anything you hear, or indeed have questions you can just leave a review by clicking here (https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/dadcast-misadventures-in-parenting/id1437650268?mt=2) .

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.

Publishing weekly every Tuesday, or whenever the kids’ chicken pox allows, the Dadcast welcomes your feedback however tangential or nappy-brained. dadcast@offtheball.com for your comments, advice and sleeping tablets, or tweet the Dads @dadcastpod

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So we're still going 70-odd episodes in - feel free to start at the start or dip in and out. We love you either way. If you like anything you hear, or indeed have questions you can just leave a review by clicking here (https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/dadcast-misadventures-in-parenting/id1437650268?mt=2) . 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. Publishing weekly every Tuesday, or whenever the kids’ chicken pox allows, the Dadcast welcomes your feedback however tangential or nappy-brained. dadcast@offtheball.com for your comments, advice and sleeping tablets, or tweet the Dads @dadcastpod

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