The Benefits and Positive Effects of Applying Tips from
The Modern Mom's Guide To Dads:
10 Secrets Your Husband Won't Tell You
When you read and apply the easy tips from The Modern Mom's Guide to Dads, you'll experience great benefits to your whole family and members of the helping and health professions!
- Moms experience less anxiety, stress and depression.
- Dads self esteem, overall health, and family and work satisfaction are improved.
- The marriage will have less conflict and more joy.
- Kids will live happier, more balanced lives.
- Helping and health professionals (childbirth instructors, nurses, doulas, midwives, social workers, and marriage and family counselors) can improve service delivery and assist families in planning and recommending appropriate interventions.
This book shows you how to get your husband involved with the kids and the household without nagging or manipulating him. That means less conflict in your marriage, more free time for you, more empowerment for him, and more time for him to be a role model for the kids.
The book is essential reading for moms and moms-to-be. Buy it for yourself, or as:
- a great baby shower or Mother's Day gift.
- a helpful tool for family life classes and clinics held at hospitals and community centers.
- a wonderful display book for obstetrecians and pediatricians in their waitng rooms.
- an insightful book college professors of family studies can recommend to their students.
Here's what researchers say about the benefits of father involvement, which you and your family will share in after reading The Modern Mom's Guide to Dads.
"There is a substantial body of research literature documenting the positive benefits fathers bring to the lives of their children. A review of studies on father involvement and child well-being published since 1980 found that 82 percent of these studies showed 'significant associations between positive father involvement and off-spring well being.....'"(1)
"An analysis of over 100 studies on parent-child relationships found that having a loving and nurturing father was as important for a child's happiness, well-being, and social and academic success as having a loving and nurturing mother. Some studies indicated father-love was a stronger contributor to some important child well-being outcomes." (2)
Weinraub, "Fatherhood: The Myth of the Second Class Parent," states that 'There is not doubt that fathers are important contributors to child development. In particular, fathers significantly affect the development of sex roles, cognitive abilities and achivement motivation." (3)
"Children who have an involved father in their lives in the early years show up for school with more of the qualities needed for learning. They are more patient, curious, and confident." (4)
"Educational consultant Paul Amato explains that this higher level of self-control in school children with involved fathers was also associated with many other healthy qualities, such as improved general life skills, self-esteem, and higher social skills." (5)
"Kyle Pruett, in Fatherneed, reports another major scientific study that linked positive fatherhood involvement with:
- Lowered levels of disruptive behavior, acting out, depression, and telling lies'
- Obeying parents, being kind to others, and being responsible.
- Fewer behavioral problems in young boys; and
- Girls being happier, more confident, and willing to try new things.
Pruett concludes, "Positive father care is associated with more pro-social and positive moral behavior overall in boys and girls." (4)
The Review of General Psychology states, "Many studies conlcude that chldren with highly involved fathers, in relation to childrens with less involved fathers, tend to be more cognitively and sociall competent, less inclined toward gender stereotyping, more empathetic, and psychologically better adjusted." (7)
1. Paul R. Amato and Fernando Rivera, "Paternal Involvement and Children's Behavior Problems," Journal of Marriage and Family 61 (1999):375-384.
2. Rohner and Veneziano, 2001, pp. 382-405.
3. M. Weinraub, "Fatherhood: The Myth of the Second Class Parent," in J.H. Stevens and M. Matthews, eds., Mother/child and Father/child Relationships (Washington, DC: Nationa Assoication for the Education of Yourn Children), p. 127.
4. Henry B. Biller, Father and Families: Paternal Factors in Child Development (Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1993).
5. Paul R. Amato, Children in Australian Families: The Growth of Competence (New York: Prentice Hall, 1987).
6. Pruett, 2000, p. 52.
7. Rohner and Veneziano, 2001, p. 392.
All articles found at: http://www.headstartinfo.org/publications/building blocks1.htm
