What do you get as a gift for a Dad? A toolkit that will help him build awesome kids!
The key lies in becoming an involved and interactive father. This unique e-learning course, For Dads by Dads: How to Build Awesome Kids and Have Fun Doing It, designed and developed in partnership with Dad Central will give you various strategies and tips to get you started.
*Please note that although the content in this course does focus mainly on fathering children from infancy to age six, many of the strategies and ideas can also help in fathering and building a relationship with slightly older school age children. If you are looking for information and strategies for parenting youth during the teen years, our e-learning course Terrifying to Terrific: Tempering the Teen Years can help.
Course Objectives
By completing this e-learning course, you will:
- Discover some ideas on how to develop and maintain a close and caring father-child relationship to enhance your opportunity to be a positive influence.
- Discover how being an involved father can help your children do better in school, help develop their communication and social skills, and provide them with guidance and support.
- Learn ways to overcome some of the challenges to involved fatherhood such as your work demands (including when you have to be away), the shock of early parenthood, not having a father role-model yourself or when the mom is territorial over the child and tends to leave you out.
- Learn some strategies to work together with your partner/child’s mother to help you parent as a team.
- Be introduced to some basic strategies for fathering in different family situations such as separated, divorced, step-or blended families.
- Learn some basic facts about brain development in infants and children and how your involvement as a father can positively contribute to it.
- Discover some basic differences between how moms and dads parent but also how both have important contributions to their child’s development.
- Discover some specific ways you can connect with your child in infancy, toddler-hood and the preschool age that will build connections and build a relationship with your child while supporting their brain development.
- Learn some strategies to help your child identify and cope with their emotions.
Explore how to support healthy child development so children can grow into the great people they are meant to be. - Discover some ideas on how to nurture and guide children as they learn right from wrong.
- Examine what teachable moments are and how you can take advantage of them to help children learn from their mistakes, overcome challenges and learn how to solve problems.
- Discover how to teach kids about the many qualities that good character is made of.
Explore how play can help to build the father/child relationship. - Gain an understanding of how play can contribute to your child’s fun and learning.
- Investigate several ways to be involved in play at different stages of early childhood.
- Identify how play can help you get more out of being a parent.
Course Materials
1. Interactive media throughout the course
2. Info clips
3. Audio stories and examples
4. ‘Take Away’ Tip Sheets (download & print)
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