Fatherhood

What We're Up Against
Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
by Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld, Ph.D.
No training. Dozens of schools offer M.B.A.'s, but there's no Master of Fatherly Administration. The fact is, we can't prepare for having kids the way many of us prepared for our professional careers. And make no mistake: fathering is tricky work

Daddy's Little Girl
The Dads & Daughters Togetherness Guide: 54 Fun Activities to Help Build a Great Relationship
by Joe Kelly
Fathers know that doing things with their daughters is important. Shared activities build trust and self-esteem, show how much dads care, and allow everyone to cut loose and have fun. But even fathers who can beat the generation and gender gaps

A Father's Weight
The Good Father: On Men, Masculinity, and Life in the Family
by Mark O'Connell, Ph.D.
Fathering is one of the most basic and profound human activities. Yet in addition to its many joys, fatherhood is often freighted with longing, sadness, anger, and misunderstanding.

Daddy's Little Girl and Preventing Teen Pregnancy
by Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT
The research on the importance of fathers grows every day; the role we play in helping our children develop social skills, better test grades, and future career success. But I want to take a moment to talk about the special impact fathers have

If I Stepped in Front of a Bus
Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt) : A Dad's Advice for Daughters
by Philip Van Munching
I'm not entirely sure whether it's a sign of pragmatism or just an advanced stage of whistling in the dark, but as I get older I seem to be having a lot more conversations that begin with this: 'If I died tomorrow...' Actually, that's not quite right.

The Challenge
Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
by Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld, Ph.D.
As businessmen and as fathers, we face nowadays what is known in business as a high-class problem: an explosion of opportunity without a single extra hour in the day. Think of how life has changed since 1960.

The Twelve Obstacles to Fathering (and How to Overcome Them)
Gift of Fatherhood : How Men's Live are Transformed by Their Children
by Aaron Hass, Ph.D.
Fatherhood will give you some of the greatest challenges - and the greatest opportunities - you will ever lace. Along with the pleasure your children can bring, you'll encounter new demands and situations that will help you to change and grow as a person.

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
When the human male did learn that he was a father, as his mate was a mother, it seems to have mentally intoxicated him, and led the way to many social vagaries. The grotesque comedy of the couvade, which proved a tragedy so often for the poor mother

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
The father owes it to his family to give himself at his best, that is, as far as possible, when his vitality is freshest and his powers keenest to answer to the young life about him. He owes it to his family to conserve for it the time to think

Evening Round-Up
by William Crosbie Hunter
Dear little Mary Elizabeth and Nancy Lou and dear little girls everywhere who read these lines: here is a message and a wish from daddy's heart. I want you to be golden girls, girls who love home and children; girls who love simple things, natural things

Chapter One
The Harris Men
by R. M. Johnson
'Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer,' the thin, white-haired doctor had told him. The man said it without emotion, without sympathy, without the slightest look of sadness in his eyes.

Effective Fathering : Nurturing and Disciplining Children
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
With infants, fathers should be responsive to their babies' cries, hold and hug them often, and participate in their basic care (e.g., feeding, changing diapers). Throughout the rest of early childhood, fathers should praise their children

The Emperors Embrace
The Emperor's Embrace: Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D.
Could it be that there is a politics of knowledge when it comes to animal behavior? We hear about infanticidal lions but rarely of heroic penguin fathers.

Introduction
The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See
by Naomi Wolf
Bestselling author Naomi Wolf was brought up to believe that happiness is something that can be taught - and learned. In this magical book, Naomi shares the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person

Effective Fathering : Protecting and Providing, Being a Role Model
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Certainly the role of father as protector and provider has changed over the years. Historically, fathers were viewed as chief financial provider for and protector of their children. As the traditional roles of mother and father, and likewise man and wife

Chinua Achebe
My Dad and Me
by Larry King
A prolific novelist, an editor, and an educator, Chinua Achebe has won countless awards for his vital contributions to African and English literature. His novel Things Fall Apart has sold more than 10 million copies all over the world and is considered

Fatherhood Programs
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
Nationally and locally, there are numerous fatherhood programs that strive to meet the various needs of the many different fathers and families. These programs fill the gaps left by social service agencies, which have limited funding, suffer from case

Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
by Child Welfare Information Gateway
One of the most important influences a father can have on his child is indirect - fathers influence their children in large part through the quality of their relationship with the mother of their children.

Hoarding Names
Daddy Needs a Drink
by Robert Wilder
In terms of upbringing, my wife, Lala, and I led mirror lives as children. I grew up with three brothers in New York and Connecticut with my dad, while Lala was raised in Colorado and Wyoming with a trio of sisters and her mother.

Have You Loved Your Child Enough Today?
by Jeremy G. Schneider, MFT
One of the issues I frequently see with fathers and their children is the difference between knowing and showing. My kids know I love them, fathers often tell me, I don't need to tell them or show them all the time.