About

Welcome to The DADventurer!

The DADventurer Family Photos About Us

I’m Dave (AKA The DADventurer), a 30-something bloke who blogs and vlogs about my adventures as a stay-at-home dad to my daughter and son.

Living in Hertfordshire with the missus (Hayley), 4-year old daughter (L [previously Baby L/Toddler L]), 8-month old son (‘Beetle’) and sausage dog (Dax), I started my parenting blog in July 2014 as a place to share my experiences, learnings, misdemeanours, failings and random musings about becoming a dad.

The DADventurer has since gone on to be recognised as one of the top parenting and dad blogs in the UK and has seen me chronicle the entire parenting spectrum – from expectant dad, to newbie dad, to stay-at-home dad, to expectant dad and newbie dad once again.

The DADventurer profile photos progression

My content is quite varied to say the least – I pretty much write about what comes into my head. One minute I’ll be penning something random about life with a toddler, the next I’ll be on my soapbox discussing issues faced by dads, then the next I’ll be reviewing some household gadget or working with a large family brand on an interesting campaign.

No matter what I write though, I always ensure that it is interesting, entertaining, honest, unique and laced with humorous undertones. Some of my most popular blog posts include:

Hahaha – some of those posts are hilarious. LOL. ROFL. And various other acronyms which I don’t quite understand.

I don’t want to sound too much of a twat by calling myself a “pro-blogger”, but I guess that’s what I am. My primary job is looking after L and ‘Beetle’, but my blog has grown to become a successful full-time business which I operate around nursery hours and nap times – his and mine. Not intending to get too braggy about things, but the DADventurer is currently recognised as:

  • #1 UK Dad Blog (Vuelio, June 2018), #4 UK Parenting Blog (Vuelio, October 2017) and #6 UK Baby & Toddler Blog (Tots 100, May 2018)

In addition, I’ve been a finalist in numerous blogging awards over the last few years including:

2018: 

2017:

2016: 

I had the privilege of being asked to read one of my blog posts as part of the Bloggers’ Keynote at BritMums Live 2015. You can check me out in action here:

As a former business consultant and now freelance writer / blogger, I regularly provide content and opinion to different publications and media outlets. This has included the likes of BritMums, BBC Local Radio, Bleacher Report, Metro UK, The Sun, The Telegraph, The Guardian and Very magazine. Also, my work has, and continues to, feature quite heavily on my mum’s fridge – although she’s not quite sure how it keeps getting put up there.

Contact

I welcome all comments, questions, suggestions, approaches, random messages and abuse. So if you have – or haven’t – enjoyed what you’ve read, are friendly / unfriendly PR folk or are a spambot offering Viagra, increased traffic or riches, you can contact me on dave@thedadventurer.com or via Twitter / Facebook.