For more than twenty years, I have been thinking and writing on the topic of parenting and fatherhood, or what I call ‘Dadhood’. Everything I write I believe is true as I write it. Sometimes I report what others believe to be true. But my opinions are not as important as stimulating discussion on the importance of fathers (with, of course, mothers) in the lives of their children. I understand disagreement is as inevitable as is the fact we can describe differently something we all see before us. But it is more difficult to argue against facts.
I think it is important to hear what research tells us about parenting and fatherhood i.e. factual evidence that comes from carefully, designed studies by social scientists. In that regard, the conversation I think worth listening to, by anyone who is a parent, is the conversation between Jordan B. Petersen, the clinical psychologist and author of “12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos”, and William Farrell, psychologist and co-author of “The Boy Crisis”. The title of the conversation is “The Absolute Necessity of Fathers”.
This conversation deals with the consequences of a fatherless household and a discussion of the crucial role played by fathers in child development, paying particular attention to play and delay of gratification.
Please take time to watch this discussion on YouTube or listen to it on a podcast as you exercise or are driving. It will open your eyes and ears to the absolute necessity of fathers, or at least give you pause.
I can only talk to my experiences as a father-deprived child and as a very evolving and involved father. While I can act as a mentor through my book and blog, I cannot claim to an expert in the fields these men are expert. This is a very important discussion!
#powerofdadhood
I think it is important to hear what research tells us about parenting and fatherhood i.e. factual evidence that comes from carefully, designed studies by social scientists. In that regard, the conversation I think worth listening to, by anyone who is a parent, is the conversation between Jordan B. Petersen, the clinical psychologist and author of “12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos”, and William Farrell, psychologist and co-author of “The Boy Crisis”. The title of the conversation is “The Absolute Necessity of Fathers”.
This conversation deals with the consequences of a fatherless household and a discussion of the crucial role played by fathers in child development, paying particular attention to play and delay of gratification.
Please take time to watch this discussion on YouTube or listen to it on a podcast as you exercise or are driving. It will open your eyes and ears to the absolute necessity of fathers, or at least give you pause.
I can only talk to my experiences as a father-deprived child and as a very evolving and involved father. While I can act as a mentor through my book and blog, I cannot claim to an expert in the fields these men are expert. This is a very important discussion!
#powerofdadhood
