Discover the Spirit of Adventure

Dads Go is dedicated to inspiring parents to embrace outdoor adventures with their children. We believe that every family can grow closer through shared experiences in nature. Our blogs, tips, and stories are crafted to guide you on this beautiful journey, through life as a parent but also as an individual.  

Started with parents in mind we wanted to offer a place and a resource you can trust that cuts out the waffy b*llSh*t and just says it how it is.  The reality of life is that it's not always easy, but also not as hard as you think it might be.  But we understand how easy it is to get so lost in life that it feels like it is impossible to escape and find peace with the world.

Our mission is to take our own experiences and through every stage of life and help guide you through, help bring about a better quality of life for you and your family and to encourage and give you the resources to thrive.  If you let it happen.

How it all started:

Being a child of the 80's and maturing in the 90's to adulting in the early 00's I feel like I missed out on a lot that the 90's had to offer as I was at that imbalance of age, if I was born 5 years earlier I think I would have enjoyed the 90's a lot more.  I wanted to bring a bit of that nostalgia back and started off with DadsGo. Raving, a site dedicated to the 90's rave scene aimed at the parents who have forgotten that it existed and are just truding along with life, in essence, waiting for retirement.  But I felt the party wasn't over and we just need a reminder that it's not too late to bring those memories back.

But then I got to thinking about the wider side of parenting life and it's not just about raving and partying, people (myself included) needed advice and companionship and help.  So I set about working on DadsGo. fullstop.  DadsGo. Hiking, DadsGo. Sporting etc.  

Our community at DadsGo. is built on the experiences of others not necessarily just science and research and industry nonsense but sometimes the raw reality that somethings just need to be said as it is.  For example, have you ever wondered if you're a bit of a crap parent?  Well, you porbably are!  But at least you have recognised that so you can do something to be a better version of you.  I often wonder if I shout unnecessarily at my children for whatever reason too often, and the answer is I definitely do.  But with the right advice from the right person maybe I can do something about it.  We're not perfect as parents, and you know you're not either.  I learned that Robin also used to shout too much as his kids until he made a choice to change.  He then passed his experiences on and I have been using that to better myself (well trying to anyway)  And that's how real life goes, and sometimes we just need to hear that we're not alone in what we do therefore it offers a beam of light to get you out of the tunnel.

Why don't you just talk to your friends or ask your colleagues?  Well, this isn't always easily done.  Yeah for sure someimes we will find someone with the right advice, but not everyone has that option, and not in the typical sense.  For example, I have a small grou of best friends who I do discuss parenting with but we're all at different stages and styles of parenting.  I had children first out of all my friends and with a fair few years between us, mine are mostly all teens and closr to being adults, whilst they're still chasing round toddlers.  They don't yet have the experiences to offer me the advice I seek.  Their situations are also different, one has a very complex child with very demanding needs, but they also have a live-in nanny, so his experiences of parenting are massively different so their advice does not always suit my needs.

The point of DadsGo. is to try to answer those questions from those who have experienced it, and hopefully covering many different forms of experiences.  My friend with the child with extra needs may also find the right advice here from others who have had a similar experience, I for one cannot offer any live lessons to him on his situation as I wouldn't know where to start, but I can point him in the right direction, maybe to DadsGo.

I also find sometimes when I need advice I can't find anyone with similar experiences or problems that I am looking for answers to.  And sometimes the problems need raw honest non sh*tty advice.  My childrens mother is a nurse and works most weekends and a lot of night shifts, and though I have to give her lots of credit for this, I also find it very frustrating as I live very much like a single parent, tired, bored and very lonely.  I get to the end of the week, and run around the kids like a lunatic, exhausted and burnt out.  When it's 11pm and you haven't even started making your own dinner yet and  you have nothing left in the tank but still the washing up to do and clothes to hang out that's when I curse our lifestyle and dream of change.  But it never comes.  So here's the problem, I might go online to see how other 'work widows' handle life for a pick-me-up but all I find is people saying that because they work hard and do a tough job we should be thankful for that, and how great they are for working a night shift or twelve hour days etc.  But no-one says 'hang on a minute', on the other side of this hero worker is a desperately lonely single parent ready to jack it all in because the lifestyle isn't worth it.  You don't get a lot of that honest advice online.  But I can't be the only one, or maybe I am and I'm being ungrateful.  But it's not that black and white is it really.  

So here is the place you can find some hard truths, some real adivce, a non-judging community for whatever your frustrations are, because maybe I'm not ungrateful but actually do have a solid point of what parenting is really like when you'e married to someone who is more married to their job.  Maybe you do just need to be told something straight up and you have to suck it up and put on your big boy pants but in the same breath of that hard truth maybe it's followed up with some support for your situation. 

If you've read this far then I know what you're thinking, 'what does this have to do with going on adventures?'   Well, besides finding the advice you need you also need to counter that with action, and it is through adventure that you can work through some of