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Training Materials This interactive curriculum was developed by Parents as Teachers National Center. The 12 sections of Focus on Fathering target child development, connecting with your child, parenting apart, healthy relationships, and more. Each section contains goals, activities, discussion points, materials, and procedures and guidance for practitioners working with the families involved.
Men on a Mission provides the first comprehensive study of men who work and volunteer with kids in a variety of public settings. This engaging book brings to life diverse histories and experiences of men who have worked as coaches, teachers, youth ministers, probation officers, Big Brothers, Boys & Girls Club staff, 4-H agents, and the like.Drawing on in-depth interviews with men between the ages of 19 and 65, ethnographic observations, and more than twenty years of research on fathers, William Marsiglio explores the many aspects of male mentorship of youth, including the motivating…
All across America, angry fathers are demanding rights. These men claim that since the breakdown of their own families, they have been deprived of access to their children. Joining together to form fathers' rights groups, the mostly white, middle-class men meet in small venues to speak their minds about the state of the American family and, more specifically, to talk about the problems they personally face, for which they blame current child support and child custody policies. Dissatisfied with these systems, fathers' rights groups advocate on behalf of legal reforms that will lower their…
Webinar
Presented by the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center on June 25, 2008, this 1 hour, 30 minutes webinar discusses key findings that have emerged from father involvement research and what they mean for fatherhood and marriage programming, research and policy developments that have lead to government sponsored programs that encourage responsible fatherhood and healthy marriages, and resources that marriage and fatherhood programs can use to strengthen their ability to understand and engage fathers and provide healthy marriage activities. The first presentation is offered by Dr. Natasha…
The Quiet Strength New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs is a low-cost New Testament that is intended to encourage people to read the Bible as a source of inspiration and strength for their lives. It includes a letter from Tony Dungy and other material focusing on the principles, practices, and priorities of a winning life. (Author abstract)
Training Materials, Book
Help children and fathers create memories with Dadventures! Filled with fun activities that kids and dads can do together, this interactive curriculum teaches children important character traits and connects kids directly with their dads for a fun time they'll never forget. It is a great complement to any fatherhood program and is simple to facilitate! With 18, fifteen minute sessions, this curriculum provides you with fun, easy activities that both dads and kids will enjoy. Its perfect for schools, community-based programs, character education programs, military bases -- any place you're…
How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children is a wake-up call to America that we are abandoning our children emotionally. Failure to support our children's emotional health at home and in schools is jeopardizing their future and that of our nation. The book has a compelling and provocative message about parent-child relations. It provides powerful and practical concepts and tools that enable parents, teachers, and childcare providers to interact with children and with each other in emotionally healthy ways. In the process, children learn to interact with each other in the same way. How to Raise…
The Research Review we present here has been compiled out of the realization that, in many policy areas, failure by policy makers and practitioners to address fathers' behaviour and concerns results in less than adequate provision for mothers and children. What is clear to us, is that the impact fathers have on their families, and, in particular, on their children -- an impact that is sometimes positive and sometimes negative -- is, in the main, going unrecognized. This Review is an attempt to fill this gap.
Contents:
* Section 1 - Active Fatherhood in Context -- sets the scene * Section 2…
If you're an expectant father, there's a surprise around every corner ... From the first moment you hear the news to the first ultrasound to the first time seducing your pregnant partner to the first kick to the first push to the first night home with your new baby, Dad's Pregnant Too! is a witty and wise guide to everything you and your partner will encounter along the way (but what no one ever tells you).
This essential guide is packed with the best advice for expectant couples from the experts and parents who have been there before--plus incredible tips and outrageous stories about the…
Debates about the future of fatherhood have been central to a range of conversations about changing family forms, parenting and society. Law has served an important, yet often neglected, role in these discussions, serving as an important focal point for broader political frustrations, playing a central role in mediating disputes and operating as a significant, symbolic, state-sanctioned account of the scope of paternal rights and responsibilities. Fragmenting Fatherhood provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within…
