Commando Dad: Basic Training: How to be an Elite Dad or Carer. From Birth to Three Years

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One thing that we’ve been doing is several nights a week we will all sit down and watch a film together without any devices or other distractions which is a perfect way to spend a few hours between dinner and bedtime. The people who stand to benefit the most from this book are new parents who have no previous exposure to babies. It is hard when you’re going through problems that you don’t feel like you can share with anyone else.

As always, I would love to hear from you if you have any questions, comments, or simply want to reach out and chat about dad life. In haste my granddad jumped in to what he thought was shallow water but it actually came over his head. I have no previous experience with babies, so to say I knew fuck all about looking after them is an understatement!

When I knew I was going to become a father, I asked one of my best friends for some recommended parental reading material. With social distancing and lockdowns, we find ourselves in uncharted waters both as parents and people. The family later came back to Blighty and Sinclair became primary carer for the couple's two children, followed by a third (born during a specially planned trip to New York so that she, like her siblings, could have dual nationality). With step-by-step advice and Commando Dad Top Tips, this book will ensure you’re ready to parent with military precision.

At first, I really enjoyed the completely inappropriate use of military terms for baby stuff (toddler = baby trooper). We will refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. He later received a medal for being one of the thousands of troops engaged in the first 20 days of the invasion.

These make the whole dad thing so much more accessible for people like me who don’t have the actual experience of having a child yet. The first thing we need to challenge is the assumption that dads can’t get postnatal depression because it is purely hormonal. FCOs are abrupt and impolite, designed to get the bare minimum of information across to those who need to hear it. We’ve all got old clothes hidden in drawers or cupboards which to our troopers can seem like magical costumes, let them run wild and dress up!

As a result, many women suffered through this challenge alone without any legitimate support from a doctor or support group, and perhaps not even feeling they could talk about it with their partner or friends. Being a parent is a challenge from day one and Neil Sinclair is very honest and positive about all of this, openly saying he has written the book as a how-to manual to help new parents get to grips with the role. It doesn't pretend to have a philosophical intrigue that will unleash the parenting instinct within you. Then, Sinclair says, he started to feel he wanted to contribute more financially while staying at home; he decided the best way was to train as a childminder. As far as I am aware, the guidance for backslaps has not changed and the risk of further harm from this method is minimal.

We tend to keep each walk under an hour and a half so no one gets too tired or cold and keep it as close to home as we can, remember that it is vitally important to the safety of your entire unit to only leave the house with members of your household!