Why the Rock and Roll is so important for your baby. Rock and Roll Dads, this Saturday, 2nd Dec 2017. This month is the third in a series of themes – each month includes a focus on one aspect of your child’s development. On Saturday, amongst the regular time and space to play for both […]
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Dads Taking Time Out
Another gentle and laid back group earlier this month: Movement play supports us to slow down, let go of other distractions and enable us to simply be together. Our lives can be filled with so much doing and activity. And certainly, as kids get older, there will be lots of time for this. These sessions […]
Dads Sessions this Weekend
Take Some Time Out It’s the first Saturday of the month, so the chance for Dads to get moving and have some breathing space. Saturday 6th June Rock & Roll Dads. 10.30am – 12 . Totnes Childrens Centre. Details here. Dads, Grandads, Uncles and Male Carers welcome with their babies, up-to before the baby can independently […]
Dads & Babies/Toddlers This Weekend
Saturday 1st April 2017: All the info can be found when you follow the links below. 10.30am – 12 . Totnes Childrens Centre Dads, grandads, uncles and male carers welcome with their babies, upto before the baby can independently walk. Details here. 3pm – 4pm Chapel House Studios For Dads and their babies from when they can independently […]
Calling Dads-to-be
I met with an antenatal group last night – to tell them about Rock & Roll Dads. So I’m prompted to open the invitation to any ‘expectant’ Dads to come along to future sessions. Our next session is on 1st April. You’ll get the chance to meet other Dads with new babies, and can have a […]
New Dads & Toddler Group Announced
All the details here
Info for Dads
We’ve had quite a few new Dads join us over recent months, so I wanted to include some links to some earlier blogs I’d written that might be of interest. In early months of the group I wrote up some of the sessions and summarised some of the information I’d mentioned, so I include the […]
Rock & Roll Dads November
Visited the ‘Weigh & Play’ session at Daisy Play Centre this morning, talking to parents about Rock & Roll Dads – Our November Session is happening this coming Saturday 5th November. Looking forward to welcoming the Dads I met this morning.
Rock & Roll Dads – October
Rock & Roll Dads getting set for our October session, this Saturday, 1st October 2016. We’ve got a new banner, to help spread the word. Watch out for it around town.
The Beginnings of Relating
Notes and Reflections from Rock & Roll Dads this month. A quiet group today, so lots of space and time for Dads to follow what they need in the rock and roll, the stillness and rest, the watching and sensing. Talk of broken nights sleep, changing patterns, sometimes making sense, sometimes not. We […]
Creating Memories – Rock & Roll Dads
Rock & Roll Dads This Saturday – 2nd April 2016 Looking forward to the session at Totnes Children’s Centre, 10.30am – 12. As well as time to hang out with other Dads & Male Carers and their babies, I’ll bring along some props again to play with. We’ll revisit the simple framework of how your babies […]
Rock & Roll Dads – March 5th
We’re 6 months old! Since starting in the Autumn, each month we’ve been welcoming men and their babies to come and move and play. As well as our regular informal time for Dads & Babies to move and roll and stretch, they’ll be the chance to follow on from last time, a simple framework of […]
Rock & Roll Dads – What’s on in Feb
Rock & Roll Dads next session is this Saturday, 6th Feb. As well as the usual time to play, I’ll be sharing a simple framework of how babies movement is organised. There are a handful of key themes, that if you know them, you can then spot these change and evolve in your baby. […]
Dads Slow Down
As I look forward to the first session of Rock and Roll Dads in 2016, here’s an update of the December session at Totnes Children’s Centre. In the big clear space, we had the chance to stretch out, take up some space, to move and to rest. With bare feet, we were able to […]
Rock & Roll Dads Coming Up
Planning for the next session on Saturday 5th December : 10.30am – 12noon at Totnes Childrens Centre. This will be the 3rd session we’ve had – it’s been great to adapt and develop how they run each month, responding to feedback and what’s needed. I’ll be sharing some key principles for the session that I’ve […]
Rock & Roll Dads
Monthly movement play session for Dads/Grandads/male carers and babies. A chance to spend some time with your baby, move, roll and play together, and meet up with other Dads/Male Carers and their babies. The early months go so quick, and there is a huge amount of change happening for young babies. These informal sessions […]
Baby Swimming, Infant Reflexes and Developmental Movement
Little Splashers Get in Touch A few months ago I was contacted by Jo Wilson, a Baby-Swim Instructor (www.littlesplashers.co.uk), who asked me about infant reflexes that she’d seen many times in the pool. We’ve had several conversations about what she’d noticed and how this related to the perspective of her baby-swim training. Our conversations led […]
Embercombe Sustainable Families
I spent this morning with a group of parents at Embercombe – offering a session on Developmental Movement, as part of their Sustainable Families project. My first time at Embercombe, and great to meet and be hosted by Joanna Watters, who facilitates this group, and be part of the mindful approach the group had. It […]