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Dads sites as good as this.

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JoPat · 07/09/2002 21:31

Does anyone know of a site as wonderful as this one for dads? My dh enjoying our chats but feels that he'd like some dad time. He must be sensing too much oestrogen.

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Ghosty · 07/09/2002 21:47

My DH is getting a little jealous too! I have only been posting for a week now and have become addicted. I forgot all about dinner the other night as I was transfixed by all the threads going on!

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JoPat · 07/09/2002 21:50

Ghosty, I have only been posting for 3 days and go online far too frequently. Thankfully dh does all the cooking but I am stopping him from looking up the football sites. You can see my need to find him his own place. (not literally!!)

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WideWebWitch · 07/09/2002 22:54

JoPat, remember someone here mentioning a website called fathers direct. I haven't looked at it in detail but it's here. But hang on: do you have 2 computers, broadband etc? Do you want him to be hanging around waiting for you to finish on mumsnet so he can go and talk to other dads? Mmmmm? Think carefully before you give him this address

ks · 07/09/2002 22:58

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WideWebWitch · 07/09/2002 23:00

ks, I know a DH who has suggested that very thing!!! Would be weird hey? We would all be looking over their shoulders wondering whether they were reading all our old posts (would take some time in my case )

emsiewill · 07/09/2002 23:00

My dh has never been interested in this site until we started talking about "I'm a Celebrity..." I never thought I'd see the day he actually encouraged me to go on mumsnet!

robinw · 08/09/2002 08:08

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manna · 08/09/2002 09:44

I've never looked at it, but my friend works for fathersdirect and he's a really lovely, concious, involved dad, so if the site's anything like him, it should be good!

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JoPat · 08/09/2002 10:24

An 'open' night for dh's would certainly be a novel idea. I'm sure there are mainy out there who peer over our shoulders and get just as involved as we are.

Will try fathers direct. dh going on a course for 9 weeks so wont have the problem of never getting to computer. (at least for the time being)

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Marina · 08/09/2002 19:48

Manna, is your friend Tom by any chance? He used to post very entertainingly on here a while back (you are missed, Tom).
I've visited Fathers Direct a few times, think it's a great site, and we ought to be pointing our dps at it!
A guest night here "for the boys" is a fab idea, though. Maybe we could organise it for the night that we are all on the town for the huge Mumsnet Christmas get-together...

ks · 08/09/2002 21:56

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Rosy · 08/09/2002 22:22

Did anybody see an article in the Guardian the week before last, I think it was about this MEP giving up his job in order to see more of his family? Somebody called Tom from Fathers Direct was quoted, and I wondered whether it was "our" Tom. (My own opinion on the article was: what are you doing being an MEP when you're 35? Go & get yourself a proper job!)

WideWebWitch · 08/09/2002 22:43

Rosy, didn't see the article but "gave up his job to spend more time with his family" is very often a euphemism for "he was sacked/forced out". Maybe it wasn't in this case...off to have a good look round fathers direct and see if I think dp would like it...

tigermoth · 09/09/2002 11:26

hmm... a night here devoted to the musings of our partners ... hmmmm perhaps not!

Wish mine was more into the net. While my dh and youngest ds are having a Star Wars fix, after time away from the video for a while, I am literally hiding behind the sofa with my laptop peeking at mumsnet.

Robinw FYO, that quote you mentioned 'he has the pub I have mumsnet' was one of mine, I think!

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Rosy · 11/09/2002 16:11

WWW, I know what you mean, but I don't think it was that. Anyway, I can't take anything you say seriously now that I know you find TB attractive!

Greengage · 14/01/2003 21:37

DH commandeered the keyboard and wrote...

If women of a previous generation could brave the exclusively blokey world of work, then surely some of us Dads can be trusted not to run scared of Mumsnet - Oestrogen-infested or not!

Come on! Don't hold back the cause of parents' equal rights and responibilities. The last thing parenthood needs is a 'gentlemen's club' where gender becomes more important than sharing the sometimes colossal challenges and hugely rewarding experiences of being a Mum or a Dad.

Claireandrich · 14/01/2003 21:39

It has suddenly occured to me that I too use this site far too much. I only came here a couple of weeks ago and I think I visit every night!!! DH is sure to start noticing that I spend much longer to get my prep done for school than I used to!!!

SoupDragon · 14/01/2003 21:41

Only every night...? Count yourself lucky you're not a SAHM with a broadband connection. Then ou'd know what "too much" really is

soyabean · 14/01/2003 21:48

I got hooked on Mumsnet a month or so ago and stopped myself as I was spending an hour or 2 every night, it seemed. I just dont have the time...Yet here I am, back, its addictive isnt it

Claireandrich · 14/01/2003 21:58

I have banned myself from using it at work in my free lessons. I started using the net in September at work on another site (hadn't got mumsnet then) and got hooked, ended up getting no work done at school at all, had to do everything at home! So, only used at night now once DD is in bed.

Rhiannon · 15/01/2003 10:39

Soupdragon, I too am a SAHM with broadband, the Hoover is within reaching distance but just not near enough......

SoupDragon · 15/01/2003 10:54

If the internet is being particularly slow or there's not much "action" I can tidy up the playroom whilst keeping an eye on things. Oh, it's all just so SAD! DSs are still in their PJs but I've managed to read threads on breastfeeding, GF, potty training and Property Ladder. And lots lots more! I actually came over to the PC to look for something... erm, what was it... Oh yes, Ebay.

Rhiannon · 15/01/2003 10:57

Glad I'm not the only one! I've been selling on UKP too so spend loads of time on there! HELP!

SoupDragon · 15/01/2003 10:59

I was without our broadband connection for over a week once - it was hell. I can't help you I'm afraid.

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