Tips on how to be the best father to your child

Women tend to agonise about parenting but what about dads asks Ailín Quinlan

IT’S a universally accepted truth that Mums are to blame for everything from a child’s untidy ways to his blossoming career as a serial killer. But nobody ever really blames Dads for anything.

Dads tend to slip under the radar — and wrongly so, says Tony Bates, clinical psychologist and Chief Executive of Headstrong, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health.