Do you know any daddy that is playing archery with his puppies and boy?

Today The Fatherly Edition call is landing in Portugal for a chat with André Sier a proud father of one with an unusual way to play with his 2 dogs (watch and see). We touch base on many aspects of parenting and fatherhood that are easy to listening than summarize :) André works artistically with code merging mythology, and generative interactive space-time continuums, with human and non-human interfaces. Philosophy graduate, with music, painting & sculpture studies. Teacher of digital & electronic arts, and guest assistant teacher at Universidade de Evora. Currently completing his PhD at the University of Plymouth with Planetary Collegium.

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Did you ever live more than a week far from your kids? Are you considering taking a break from your job to spend 24/7 with your kids? Welcome back to THE FATHERLY EDITION by Tommaso Maggio. Today I am with Christopher Cribb. He shared how he decided to make a life change, how is boosting his relationship with his son and their new life in London. A couple of reflections on the big step for his son, moving from Singapore to London, a new city, with the challenge and beauty to make new friends, new schools, and much more...

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Christopher is a property development professional specialising in the development of hotels and resorts and lived in Asia for 16 years and latterly Hong Kong before relocating back to the UK. Over the last 6 years, Christopher has been remotely parenting his children Jack (9) and Belle (8) as work has meant that Christopher had to be located in Hong Kong whilst his children remained in Singapore with their mother.

Contact and positive parenting has been a challenge and sporadic especially during the global pandemic. During this period and whilst international boarders were closed to travellers, Christopher did not see his children for 18 months.

In late 2020, Christopher moved to London at the request his company which meant further distance between him and his children.

However, in May 2022, Christopher was given a life changing opportunity to parent Jack in the UK full time so that Jack could continue his schooling in the UK which was always a long term plan for both children.

Over the last 6 years and an prolonged absence of hands on parenting of Jack and Belle, Christopher welcomed Jack to the UK with open arms and made the important decision to swap corporate life for full time parenting of Jack for at least the next year and to support Jack to adjust to life in the UK. 

Everyday is different and has it’s challenges but the opportunity to bring a closer bond together between father and son is something that Christopher believes is the most rewarding thing he has ever done.  

Christopher’s daughter Belle will follow to London within the next couple of years.

Hi everyone! Welcome back to THE FATHERLY EDITION,  today I had the chance to interview Laze Tripkov. We meet last year at one Design Education Conference. We talked about the value of being a father, and how society's expectations somehow can mould our decisions.

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After returning back to Macedonia, he became active in the advertising sector and one year later he became a father of a beautiful daughter (2005) which inspired his work and design activity. Starting of as a freelancer, organizes few solo exhibitions and initiated the Macedonian Graphic Design Association, where he still serves as a director. The love of his family flourished in 2010 with a baby boy, setting new limits and explorations in design research and become faculty professor teaching major subject like basis of graphic design and poster design. During his professional carrier he was separated from his family for a certain period of time in 2013, spending time in Montenegro, organizing, facilitating and managing a private faculty of art design in the capital city of Podgorica. Till 2016 he was vice dean of the faculty and had to spend more active time with his family back home.

His daughter is his biggest inspiration, and together they have made several posters - one of them is in the University Hospital in Warsaw, and a few others in private collections – His son is more sports-oriented, so every weekend he is dedicated to his activities.

Stationed in Skopje, where he works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design at International Balkan University in Skopje, Macedonia and Phd Candidate of Visual Communication at UJEP, Faculty of Art and Design, Czech RepublicPhD

Welcome back! Today, at The Fatherly Edition, we are in Bangkok (Thailand) with Andy Barash an American living in Bangkok, which I meet a few years ago at one kids' event in town. Andy is the father of a four-year-old girl. Before moving to Thailand, he spent almost two decades working in humanitarian assistance with the United Nations and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Today he continues in that field, though part-time and remotely to be close to his wife and daughter. When not with family or working, Andy writes fiction and recently completed his second book, which is a short story collection.

Today, at The Fatherly Edition, we are in Bangkok (Thailand) with Ayesh Rajapaksha, a fantastic Sri Lankan daddy of a 2-year-old girl and the Office Vice-President, Chief Administrative Officer, at Citibank Thailand. Besides loving spending time with his daughter while cooking and travelling, he is passionate about Rugby and Cricket. Ayesh's motto: "Be involved and enjoy the moment you are in." I love being a dad, sometimes it makes me feel like I was waiting for this all my life. We have 2 years+ daughter who is our bundle of joy as well as a bad apple sometimes. We love spending time together. Going out for meals, cafes, activities, watching movies, reading books and taking bike rides. Personally, I am proud to say that I am a very hands-on dad who is involved in my daughter's life as well as partnering with my wife. We are a small family who has been living in Thailand for 5 years, Thailand is a very nice place and we have met so many wonderful people.   

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Hi! I am Tommaso Maggio, creator of BUSINESS OF POSITIVE PARENTING / FATHERLY EDITION I have selected 10 fathers from the north to the global south, from fintech to banking, architecture to contemporary arts, we will have the first roundtable about our new role in society in the upcoming weeks.