Ideas for time together, talking and listening, helping your child with feelings, and staying involved in learning and school. See every topic on the Resources page.
Is your child feeling bored? Not to worry. The Internet has plenty of ideas that your child can engage in when they feel bored. One website I found has 31 ideas and another has 51. But all of them, apparently, are missing the point. What fathers must understand is the true cause of boredom. It
Writing is a crucial literacy milestone for children, and without proper scaffolding, children may be missing out on important social interaction skills. Language is innate in neurotypical children, and children need external support to learn standard writing. Emergent literacy is the process by which children learn to read and write, starting from their 12th month.
For the first one to two years of life, a baby isn’t able to speak. As a result, many fathers struggle to talk to their infants. How do you talk to an infant when they can’t talk back to you? Even though your baby isn’t able to speak, she is listening and her brain is
Imagine that the bicycle you are riding suddenly transforms into a high-powered motorbike. After recovering from the initial shock, you would be tempted to push the motorbike to its limit and see what it can do. The same is happening in your teen’s brain during puberty. When your child enters puberty, his brain undergoes an
In the previous articles, I have shared the three ingredients to Quality Time with your child which are engage your child one at a time, be present and do what your child loves. Today, let me share my final thoughts on the subject. What I want to share is that Quality time can be brief.
If you read the last article, you would have learned that the first ingredient for Quality Time is to engage your children one at a time. In this article, I will share with you the second ingredient to Quality Time. The second ingredient to Quality Time is to be present. This means freeing yourself from
As fathers, we want to spend as much time as possible with our children. But when that is not possible, what options do we have? If you can turn every engagement with your child into Quality Time, would you want to know how? There are three ingredients to turn every engagement you have with your
Has your child become more reserved? Do you find that you are knowing less and less about your child and what they are doing? Do you feel that you have lost your power to parent your child? Do you feel alienated from your child? If you have answered yes to any or all of these
As children grow, their world enlarges and making friends becomes one of their most important missions. Friendships are good for a child’s self-esteem. A child with friends will definitely feel better about himself than one with no friends at all. It is normal for young children to have friends but there is something children need
Here’s a conversation between a father and her daughter. Father: Didn’t you have a test recently? Daughter: Yes, I did. Father: How did you do in the test? Daughter: I scored 65 out of 100. If you were the father, what would you say next? I have observed that most of the conversations with our
