Out in Pembrokeshire, where landscape painters flock with their palettes and their brushes to capture the wild, arresting beauty of the Welsh coastline, you’ll find the studio of Mr David Gwyther, an artist who, by his own admission, hasn’t painted a landscape in as long as he can remember. “I grew up here,” he says. “When I moved back, I made a box of paints to paint landscapes again. I have yet to open that box.”

Father’s Day has been an annual fixture in the calendar since 1910. But in the intervening years, the meaning behind this holiday is shifting. We all understand the Hallmark card version of our Old Man – the kind of guy who likes real ale, fishing expeditions and gardening on his one day off from being dad. However, just as parenting is evolving, so is the definition of who a dad is and what their roles and responsibilities must be. Last year, MR PORTER asked new dad Mr Alex Godfrey to write about his changing perspective as he entered fatherhood for the first time. This year, ahead of Father’s Day for many of us, we spoke to three new dads, with vastly different experiences, to get their perspectives, in their own words, on parenting in 2022.

The modern image of group work tends to spring from an Oregon psychiatric hospital in 1975. There, Nurse Ratched explained, “The purpose of this meeting is therapy. Group therapy,” and Randle McMurphy responded, “Yeah, yeah, the hell with that crap! The World Series is goin’ on right now an’ that’s therapy also.” One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nestis a world away from mutual support organised via WhatsApp, but the movie cast a long shadow over the public perception of collective therapies. Despite Nurse Ratched’s cultural resonance, a combination of technology and a shortfall in available one-to-one care have led to an explosion in both official and community-led groups for a multiplicity of causes. For many of us, as McMurphy might have been pleased to note, these groups are as much a part of our social realm as sporting fixtures – and some are even entwined.

Having trouble sleeping? You’re not alone. It’s been reported that 67 per cent of adults in the UK experience disrupted sleep. In the US, according to Sleep Foundation, “between 10 and 30 percent of adults struggle with chronic insomnia”. These numbers are significant. More than a quarter of people say that improving sleep is their biggest health ambition, according to a survey for Aviva. But, at this time of the year, when the days are longer (and the drive to socialise late into the night is strong), sleep prioritisation tends to go out the window.

Out in Pembrokeshire, where landscape painters flock with their palettes and their brushes to capture the wild, arresting beauty of the Welsh coastline, you’ll find the studio of Mr David Gwyther, an artist who, by his own admission, hasn’t painted a landscape in as long as he can remember. “I grew up here,” he says. “When I moved back, I made a box of paints to paint landscapes again. I have yet to open that box.”

Father’s Day has been an annual fixture in the calendar since 1910. But in the intervening years, the meaning behind this holiday is shifting. We all understand the Hallmark card version of our Old Man – the kind of guy who likes real ale, fishing expeditions and gardening on his one day off from being dad. However, just as parenting is evolving, so is the definition of who a dad is and what their roles and responsibilities must be. Last year, MR PORTER asked new dad Mr Alex Godfrey to write about his changing perspective as he entered fatherhood for the first time. This year, ahead of Father’s Day for many of us, we spoke to three new dads, with vastly different experiences, to get their perspectives, in their own words, on parenting in 2022.