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Super better app. Get some self love in your life

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Super better app. Get some self love in your life

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SuperBetter uses the psychology of game play in all of life to improve resilience, mental health and social-emotional learning. Played by over 1 million people, SuperBetter unlocks your heroic potential to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.
How it Works

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Social-Emotional Learning, Mental Health & Resilience Training

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SuperBetter uses the psychology of game play in all of life to improve resilience, mental health and social-emotional learning. Played by over 1 million people, SuperBetter unlocks your heroic potential to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. How it Works

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Selfish Mother blogzine for brilliant women

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Building a society that supports men as hands-on fathers and father-figures

The Fatherhood Institute is a UK charity working to build a society that values, prepares, and supports men as involved fathers and caregivers.

Evidence shows that involved fatherhood has unique and significant impacts on children, mothers, and fathers themselves; improves children's wellbeing and outcomes; and helps progress towards gender equality at home and in the workplace.

Our work focuses on research, policy, and practice. We publish research reviews, take part in new studies and test promising family interventions; advocate for policy change; produce practice resources; and train practitioners in perinatal, early years, education, and social care services.

In July 2023 we started a Parliamentary petition calling on the Government to improve its statutory paternity offer, by:

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Paying employed fathers two weeks' paternity leave at 90% of salary

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Introducing a 'daddy month' of four weeks' parental leave, paid at the same rate

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Introducing a Paternity Allowance for fathers who are not employees

If 10,000 people sign the petition by 11 January 2024, the Government will have to respond to this proposal.

Our policy work streams

Discover our work to create more father-inclusive policies and services

Our research

Read our high-quality research reviews, co-investigations with eminent universities, and empirical research

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The Fatherhood Institute is a UK charity working to build a society that values, prepares, and supports men as involved fathers and caregivers. Our work focuses on research, policy, and practice.

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A little bit of humour goes a long way!

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When you first become a parent you notice quite quickly that you are doing everything wrong. There are various helpful sources from which to learn all the wrong things you are doing... One of the first things I learnt I was doing wrong was letting the baby nap on me. This was a very bad thing. Gina Ford said that babies should nap in dark rooms for 2.5 hours and wake up feeling happy and refreshed.

This all sounded great but unfortunately the baby had other ideas. He liked to sleep for 20 minutes and woke up like a snarling rage monster.

He slept ok in the pram and in the car but those things were also bad because he was not learning to 'self-settle' which is the holy grail of parenting.

By failing to have a baby that self-settled I was making a rod for my own back - he would never be able so sleep alone!

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Monday
AM: Go to the park, watch children start throwing sand into faces of other children, threaten children, get rained on, drag children home screaming.
PM: Try and rescue the day by doing a wholesome activity such a crafting. Observe how it rapidly transcends into casual violence.

Tuesday
AM: Take children out on a trip to 'fun family farm'. Haemorrhage £50 and get told 'I HATE YOU!' because you won't buy a freakish looking Alpaca toy in the gift shop.

PM: Give kids iPad so they can watch other people open Surprise Eggs on YouTube.

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It's easy to look at pregnant women and seemingly perfect nuclear families and think, 'Wow, don't they have it all!' If you are in the zone of desperately wanting a child and it being out of reach, almost everyone around you seems to hold what you are missing.

But what you don't see is their journey. You can't see years of fertility treatment, failed attempts at IVF, miscarriages or the tiny babies lost. If you are lucky you will have experienced none of these things; in the worst situations some couples experience them all.

But often we just don't know because we don't talk about it. Or even if we do, we then quickly sweep it under the carpet because people, myself included, get all awkward when they have to discuss sad stuff. Serious stuff. Let's just have a cup of tea and call it 'one of those things'.

Have you ever had a conversation with a friend who told you that she's miscarried and then quickly brushed it away because 'It happens all the time' - you can see that her eyes have started to water and she's struggling to make eye contact because it doesn't really matter how long she was pregnant for or how big or small the baby got - it was a life, there was so much excitement, so much potential and then suddenly it's all gone, to be treated like a common cold: grow up, get over it, everyone has them! Except a couple of paracetamol doesn't provide a quick fix when it comes to miscarriages.

Years later, when hopefully those couples have a child or children of their own, they may still feel like they are not allowed to mention their journey any more because ultimately they got their dream. But you are still allowed to feel that loss aren't you?

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When you first become a parent you notice quite quickly that you are doing everything wrong. There are various helpful sources from which to learn all the wrong things you are doing... One of the first things I learnt I was doing wrong was letting the baby nap on me.