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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After-school specials about teenage pregnancy abound. Whether in television or in society, the focus tends to towards young girls coping with all of the emotional and physical burdens of pregnancy. Rarely is the perspective of the teenage fathers portrayed.
In this informative book, Mark Kiselica draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these young men experience. Through vignettes of real-life experiences, based on Kiselica's many years of counseling, readers are offiered a…
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…
Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing prominence of fathers' rights groups and the introduction of social policies, such as paternity leave. Intimate Fatherhood explores discourses of contemporary fatherhood, men's parenting behaviour and debates about fathers' rights and responsibilities.The book addresses the extent to which fatherhood has changed by examining key dichotomies - culture versus conduct, involved versus uninvolved and public versus private. The book also looks at longstanding conundrums such as the apparent discrepancy…
Men want to be better fathers, and today they're trying harder than ever. They jog behind strollers, leave work early for parent-teacher conferences, and roughhouse with their kids before they've had a chance to change out of their suits.
But many men aren't building the relationships with their sons that they'd hoped for. And sons are finding it hard to confide in fathers who must devote so much of their time to building careers that both keep them from their families and keep their families comfortable. Many fathers admit that they don't have a clue what's going on in their sons'…
Updated and redesigned for a new generation of dads, Josh McDowell's ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner The Father Connection looks at ten parenting qualities inspired by the ultimate model of fatherhood. Embracing these godly characteristics will make all the difference in a child, boosting self-esteem and sense of purpose, helping him or her to: feel loved and secure, develop a reputation of integrity, know their dad keeps his promises, stand up to unhealthy peer pressure, avoid drug and alcohol abuse, save sex until marriage, desire their father's counsel, admit when they're wrong, come to…
This activity book serves up plenty of fun-filled ways for young boys and their dads to spend time together. From building a mini-golf course to playing a homemade board game, the suggestions in this book are designed to challenge, educate, and stimulate young minds.
Many of the activities are centered around encouraging creativity through art projects and crafts. There are also word games, silly science experiments, secret codes to unravel, and different culinary creations to make. Most of the activities require few supplies and little planning.
The 75 activities are geared to…
Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul takes a peak into the lives of fathers and sons, sharing the important male milestones from birth through childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, the senior years, and every step in between. This is a celebration of how fathers and sons carry each other along life's journey.Share the story of one man who didn't think much of becoming a father until the day he laid eyes on his son, and how in a matter of moments his perspective on life and being a dad had profoundly changed forever, and the touching story of a young boy who finds the father he…
A devoted wife, two bright children, a gorgeous home in a nice Connecticut suburb, an ample income as a successful lawyer: By all accounts, Cameron Stracher is living the American dream. Problem is, thanks to a crazy work schedule, he's never home to enjoy it. So Cameron makes a bold decision: For the next year he'll be home by six o'clock at least five days a week to sit down to a real family dinner--and he'll even help cook that dinner himself. But as this daring adventure gets under way, it becomes clear that the road to culinary togetherness is no cakewalk. Only the author's faith in…
This activity book describes strategies for strengthening families drawn from telephone interviews with 1,000 adults in Minnesota, 400 family questionnaires, 12 focus groups with families of various ethnic groups, and five family forums. Nine family strengths are identified and discussed: communication, health, time together, spirituality, support, respect, unity, cultural traditions, and extended sense of family. For each strength, activities are suggested as well as ideas from other families. The booklet closes with worksheets for families to complete to identify their own strengths and…
