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Dear parents, please don’t choose to die…

by JC Clapham | Aug 10, 2020 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, The Westsider, Writing | 0 |

*** Content warning: Suicidal themes *** Dear dad or mum to a child or children, Firstly, let me...

It’s about time all Aussie Dads were screened for depression, too

by JC Clapham | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |

In announcing an expansion of its mental health program, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) said the men “will be automatically offered a comprehensive mental health assessment and sign-posted to professional support if needed.”

Australia should go even further.

How we learned to co-parent peacefully after the separation

by JC Clapham | Feb 14, 2019 | Life, Parenting, Writing | 0 |

The reality of how my kids’ mother and I were, and are, as parents really surprised me. Our personality types and general approach to life ended up being the opposite to our parenting styles.

As we created our family and brought children into the world, I assumed we’d be those same people in our parenting roles, too. But that could not have been further from the truth.

How to deal with Christmas as a single dad

by JC Clapham | Dec 13, 2018 | Life, Parenting, Writing | 0 |

If you don’t have your kids for the day, or part of it at least, the loneliness and sadness of Christmas as a single dad can overwhelm.

This Christmas will be the third since the mother of my children and I chose to separate, but it will be my first with my kids and me at our home on Christmas morning … I’m so excited!

5 reasons single dads are wary of dating

by JC Clapham | Dec 4, 2018 | Life, Parenting, Writing | 0 |

From being protective of their kids to just looking after their own heart, JC Clapham outlines the real reasons a single dad might baulk at dating again.

I’m a ‘single dad’. That term can mean a few different things, and it carries a few different types of what some would call ‘baggage’.

Yes it means I’m a dad and I do the dadding on my own without a partner. And yes, it means I was once in a very serious relationship with someone I had children with, and who is still connected to my life and always will be, to some degree.