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25th June 2018
03:32pm BST

"But once you get over those initial barriers and have conversations, these common themes keep coming up, such as ‘I had to miss the parents evening or sports day because I couldn’t get home from work’ or ‘I only get to see my son at bedtime and I don’t know what to do’.
"When you open up those conversations, you start to realise there’s a different side to blokes - we don’t just want to talk about beer and the World Cup."
He gave up his job three years ago to spend more time with his son but found few social outlets for fathers.
"When I became more of a stay-at-home dad I had access to mother and toddler groups, but there were very few dads there and we were not made made to feel very welcome," he said.
His father and child group Dad La Soul meets once a month for different activities.
He hopes the idea takes off so that dads everywhere can meet and socialise together.Explore more on these topics: