I just found another interesting article on NY Times Wellness Blog about the role of fathers in their children's health and care. They had some good points and tips. The following quote rang true to me:
“Many TV sitcoms and animated shows continue to portray dads as dolts or, at best, well-meaning but misguided large children whose wives have to mother them as well as their offspring. If an alien in another universe happens to tune in to ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Everyone Loves Raymond,’ ‘Family Guy,’ etc., he (it?) will come away with a rather skewed idea of how men function in American families.”
The article discusses what are some universal principles of good fathering. #1 and #2 are Be There and Be There throughout childhood.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Fathers Follow-up
Posted by Amy at 7:59 PM
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I am going to say something strange and assert that some women feed into this notion that men (even or especially their spouses) are incapable of caring for a child as well as they can...they communicate this by criticizing how the dad dresses the child or feeds him/her or how the Dad even plays with his child...pretty soon the Dads stop trying, because they don't want to hear how there is one right way to do things and they are not doing it...
Dad may not have done braids, but he put great ponytails in and I was so grateful he would do something with your hair, I thanked him.
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