by Dad Central | Sep 19, 2018 | Father Involvement, Professional Development, Training |
Canadian National Father Involvement Conference Feb 28 & Mar 1, 2019 ~ Ottawa, ON Fatherhood Matters in the Early Years will focus on supporting and engaging fathers with relevant and effective services, programs, or resources. Our goal is to help provide fathers...
by Dad Central | Aug 31, 2018 | Father Involvement, Fatherhood Matters, side by side conference, Training |
Registration will open mid September. Stay tuned! Dr. Stuart Shanker on fatherhood and self-regulation Dr. Cindy-Lee Dennis on peri-natal fatherhood Dr. Andrew Howlett on fatherhood and mental health The always popular “dads panel” An evening networking...
by Dad Central | Aug 29, 2018 | Father Involvement, Involved Fathers, New Dads |
by John Hoffman One thing I will never ever forget about my early days of fatherhood was the way physical contact with my son helped me feel like a dad. Like most new parents, I found the first few days of parenthood pretty overwhelming. It was joy and amazement mixed...
by Dad Central | Jun 29, 2018 | Father Involvement |
Surprising thoughts about challenging children by John Hoffman The other day I was hanging out with a family who have a very interesting, cute, bright –and challenging — 14-month old. This little girl is definitely one of those kids who I think of as...
by Dad Central | May 30, 2018 | Father Involvement, Mental health, parenting |
by John Hoffman Today’s parents are much more into reasoning with kids than parents of a couple of generations ago. Back then parent-child dialogue was much more about telling kids what they had to do (and not do), and what would happen if they didn’t (or did) do it,...
by Dad Central | Apr 25, 2018 | Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, parenting |
by John Hoffman Not long ago I read a British news media article that claimed today’s dads aren’t teaching their kids skills the way fathers did in days gone by. Mind you, some of the examples they gave were little odd. In fact, the headline listed “making a catapult”...
