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”...
by Dad Central | Mar 1, 2018 | Dads, Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, parenting |
by John Hoffman Canada is finally going with Daddy Days. Well, not by that name. But the February 27 federal budget included the cumbersomely-named Employment Insurance Parental Sharing Benefit (EIPSB), a new 5-weeks of parental leave for “the other parent.” That’s...
by Dad Central | Feb 20, 2018 | parenting, Separated Dads, tips |
by Julie Morris, juliemorris.org For parents, the number one responsibility is always the health and happiness of the kids. Many single parents, however, struggle to find time to focus on their own personal well being, and this can lead to some bad habits. While it...
by Dad Central | Feb 2, 2018 | Father Involvement, parenting, Research |
by John Hoffman Every once in awhile I see something on Twitter that is actually interesting. The other week it was a Tweet crowing about how Finland is the “only country where fathers spend more time with kids than mothers.” The implication was that Finland was some...
by Dad Central | Jan 18, 2018 | Father Involvement, Healthy Relationships, parenting, Uncategorized |
By John Hoffman I am not a smartphone addict myself. But I really don’t want to join the chorus of people proclaiming their dire dangers for kids. For one thing, I can’t stand it when older people wag their fingers and declare that the younger generation should be...
