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Have you ever stopped to think about how your priorities change over time? From when you are young and entering the workplace, to when you have children or when you are thinking about retirement and then looking back on your life. Now is a good time to reassess and reflect!

To ensure optimal wellbeing, making an effort to balance work and family life is imperative for you, your children and family.

Not every family is the same and the way you balance your time will differ. Make a plan that works for you, and stick with it.

Top Tips

1. Assess your balance. Assess your work-family priorities and compare these against how you currently are using your time.

2. Explore ways to add some extra time with your kids. Some great times for discussions and keeping in touch with your kids are in the car, walking together somewhere or doing chores together.

3. Join forces with other dads, father figures and parents at work. Be open at work about being a father, and that family is important to you. Normalise the way you prioritise fatherhood at work by making sure your colleagues know you’re a dad.

Dad joke of the week

"How do you have a party in space? You planet."

Podcast: Supporting your teen daughter

Madonna King discusses raising teen girls and highlights the important role fathers play in their teen daughter’s life. Madonna provides tips on how dads can best support them through their journey to becoming a young woman.

https://www2.thefatheringproject.org/e/942423/ng-podcast-raising-teen-girls-/9n3tf/173110827?h=YA-a95ym7-ispzHQefoSgNRwspVHJgrc0oS-qNvK7Xw

Cycling for Children Classic Tour 2023

Have you registered for the Classic Tour yet? In May, we will be riding from Mittagong to Canberra and we want you to join us. Get your mates together, get registered and we hope to see you there!

https://www2.thefatheringproject.org/e/942423/2022-11-21/9n3tj/173110827?h=YA-a95ym7-ispzHQefoSgNRwspVHJgrc0oS-qNvK7Xw

Are you a dad joke champion?

We are on the hunt for our dad joke champions! For the price of a coffee - enter the competition, tell your joke and at the same time support dads and kids across the country.

https://www2.thefatheringproject.org/e/942423/dad-jokes-australia-/9n3tm/173110827?h=YA-a95ym7-ispzHQefoSgNRwspVHJgrc0oS-qNvK7Xw

Understanding the teenage brain

Neuroscientist Dr Steve Kassem helps us understand what's going on in the teenage brain. From hormones, to the changes that happen from childhood, he uncovers it all.

https://www2.thefatheringproject.org/e/942423/derstanding-the-teenage-brain-/9n3tq/173110827?h=YA-a95ym7-ispzHQefoSgNRwspVHJgrc0oS-qNvK7Xw

Play Learn Grow

Play Learn Grow – subscribe to receive free tips from early childhood experts.

Play Learn Grow is a free text message program which supports parents and carers of children aged two and three with their child’s wellbeing, learning and development at home.

Developed by the Victorian Government in partnership with early childhood parenting experts, the program provides parents and carers with practical information, advice and support, as well as fun and easy activity ideas to do at home.

Participants will receive three personalised text messages a week, developed by early childhood education experts. Text messages will cover reading, playing, talking, and self-care, and will be available in six languages – English, as well as Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Simplified Chinese and Korean from April.

Participants can opt-in and opt-out at any time. Text PLAY to 0428 606 027 to subscribe – it’s free!

Find out more at www.vic.gov.au/play-learn-grow-text-message-program.

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