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…
Stars of MTV's Run's House -- dubbed "the new Cosby family" -- celebrate family values in this inspiring guide to modern parenting. Despite being a hip-hop icon, an ordained minister, and a reality TV star, Rev Run's greatest accomplishment has been raising his six children--Angela, Vanessa, JoJo, Diggy, Russy and Miley--with his wife Justine. Their journey has been captured on Run's House, a show that celebrates -- finally -- a reality TV family that is functional instead of dysfunctional. In an age marked by shallow materialism and fragmented families, Rev Run and Justine have inspired…
Freddie Scot has a history as a player in the National Football League, a minister, youth counselor, public speaker, and author. He is the founder and president of Unlock The Champion, LLC., an organization dedicated empowering families and the teaching of fundamental life skills essential to character development for people raised in broken homes, especially athletes. His most recent research has made him aware of the tremendous need, now more than ever, for strong fathers in America's ever-changing culture and across the world. Today Scott travels throughout America speaking on such issues…
Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt discovered early in their friendship that they shared a disturbing trait: As children, they navigated dangerous inner-city life without a father's guidance. They escaped deilinquency and crime to form the Pact, dedicated to putting themselves on the road to success. Now, the Three Doctors make a new promise: to set aside their resentment, find their fathers, and rebuild relationships with men they barely recognize. Told in voices alternating between father and son, The Bond explores the hard lessons of growing up without a father, and…
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Training Materials Mothers are a key factor for getting fathers involved. When both parents can effectively co-parent together, their children benefit greatly.
We've developed the Mom As Gateway curriculum module to help you break down barriers between mothers and fathers and facilitate helpful discussions and efforts towards co-parenting.
This module addresses what is known as Maternal Gatekeeping - when a mother's beliefs about a father, as well as her behaviors, hinder a father's involvement. Studies show that mothers' perceptions greatly influence fathers' involvement.
Using this module, facilitators…
This analysis draws on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with disadvantaged mothers and fathers who participated in the Fragile Families Study (a U.S. birth cohort study) to examine how issues related to men's employment, social support, skills, and motivation facilitated their care of young children in different relationship contexts. Interviews with parents indicate that while some motivated and skilled men actively chose to become caregivers with the support of mothers, others developed new motivations, skills, and parenting supports in response to situations in which they were out of…
When parents split up, it's hard on everyone in the family, especially children. This page contains
1) a video where families share their experiences parenting together while living apart, where they discuss how community resources helped them work through conflict and achieve a positive dynamic for their children; and,
2) a co-parenting guide full of information about ways parents who live apart can work together to take care of their children.
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For guys who don't read baby books, but want to be great dads, Crash Course for New Dads is the collective knowledge of over 200,000 new fathers; the real experts. Unlike other baby books, Crash Course for New Dads has only what you need to know in easy-to-grasp lists, charts and tear-outs. The highlights include the childbirth coaching guide, an essential guide to childbirth and the Troubleshooters Guide to Crying Babies, an easy to use tool for finding out why your baby is crying. This is comprehensive information for dads-to-be at its best straight, concise and in a format that makes it…
Being a young dad comes with lots of challenges -- and this handbook will help new fathers cope with these responsibilities and enjoy taking care of their baby! Explains a father's rights and responsibilities, and encourages new dads to be involved in their baby's life right from the start, including participating in prenatal care and maintaining a positive relationship with the baby's mom and grandparents. Includes tips on everything from coping with crying to making a budget, and provides workbook pages that feature a development chart and baby-care schedule. (Author abstract)
For the first time in America, over half of all mothers under thirty are unwed. New research finds that more than 50 percent of all births to women under 30 are out of wedlock. Fifty years ago, it was 6 percent. It's the unintended consequence of big shifts in culture and policy, and it's got long-range implications for the way we live. This program looks at the impact on children, families, and the whole American economy. (Author abstract modified)Guests: Andrew Sum, Sara McLanahan, Carmen Patterson-Worrell, and Lisa Ward.Length of program: 46 minutes.
