Dad Has an Invisible Load Too: Richard Cummins on Twins, Tech, the Dinner Table & Raising Three K...

Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2366637/fa...) This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with Richard Cummins  adtech professional, startup advisor, podcast host, North Londoner and father of three: twin daughters and a son. And yes, the twins came first. This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with Richard Cummins — adtech professional, startup advisor, podcast host, North Londoner and father of three: twin daughters and a son. And yes, the twins came first. Richard brings a perspective to this podcast that does not come around often enough — the honest, reflective, self-aware male voice in the parenting conversation. Not the Instagram version. The real one. The one that admits to blocking his calendar between 3 and 3:30 to do the school run. The one that talks about his father coming home at 8pm and his own version of showing up completely differently. The one that says directly and without apology that dads have their own version of the invisible load — a silent pressure to lead, provide, be the man of the house — and that it does not get talked about nearly enough. They get into what three months of paternity leave at Google actually gave him — the full immersion, the four hands on deck, the realisation that nothing in corporate life comes close to what happens inside a home with newborn twins. The conversations they have around the dinner table now that his girls are eight, asking about his presentations, engaging with his work, becoming the kind of children who talk to their parents because their parents have always talked to them. The origami phase. The Duolingo streaks. Teaching his son to read sheet music from an iPad in two weeks when it took Richard years. They talk about the 11+ without the panic — what it actually tests, why reasoning and articulation matter more than cramming, and why neither of them is putting their child through the pressure of feeling like their whole future rides on one test at age ten. About money conversations at the dinner table the way Black families have always had them — and what it means that the next generation is growing up in rooms where the right words for those conversations already exist. Richard also gets into the invisible load as a man — why it is a different kind of weight, why men are less likely to talk about it, what it costs when you do not, and why both parents having their outlet is not a luxury but a requirement. This one goes deep, goes wide and finishes warm. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →