Fathers and Education
Interested in how best to help your children at school? Check these resources for being more involved, helping with homework, working with teachers and helping your children succeed at the business of education.
How a Father Can Help Children Succeed at School
Fathers play an important role in a child's education. The things a father does with his children can help them achieve success, or may discourage them from educational achievement.
Fathers play an important role in a child's education. The things a father does with his children can help them achieve success, or may discourage them from educational achievement.
How Was School Today?
Probably the single most popular topic of conversation at home is what the kids did at school. It is a question parents ask and kids hate. Find out how to better talk with your children about their school day.
Probably the single most popular topic of conversation at home is what the kids did at school. It is a question parents ask and kids hate. Find out how to better talk with your children about their school day.
Talking to Your Children About Grades
Dealing with your children’s grades can be tough. Finding out that they are low is one thing; finding out why is something different. And children can feel inappropriately pressured to achieve good grades if fathers don’t handle this well. Learn some basic principles for talking with your children about their grades so you can get results without undue pressure.
Dealing with your children’s grades can be tough. Finding out that they are low is one thing; finding out why is something different. And children can feel inappropriately pressured to achieve good grades if fathers don’t handle this well. Learn some basic principles for talking with your children about their grades so you can get results without undue pressure.
Getting Involved at Your Child’s School
It’s not just belonging to the PTA any more. Fathers are taking a more active role in the education of their children and in the governance of local schools. Find out more about how you can successfully get involved in your child’s education at home and at school.
It’s not just belonging to the PTA any more. Fathers are taking a more active role in the education of their children and in the governance of local schools. Find out more about how you can successfully get involved in your child’s education at home and at school.
A Father's Commitment to Life Long Reading
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
How Fathers Can Help Their Children Read: Middle School and High School Years
Helping your middle school or high school child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping your middle school or high school child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping Elementary Age Children Read
Helping your elementary school-aged child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping your elementary school-aged child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping Your Preschooler Learn to Read
Helping your preschool child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping your preschool child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Teaching Children to Memorize
Memorizing, while sometimes a challenge to both children and adults, is a necessary skill to enhance learning and retention. From poetry to multiplication tables, children who can memorize are miles ahead of those that never learn how. Here are some ideas and tips that will help you teach your children the skills needed to effectively memorize.
Memorizing, while sometimes a challenge to both children and adults, is a necessary skill to enhance learning and retention. From poetry to multiplication tables, children who can memorize are miles ahead of those that never learn how. Here are some ideas and tips that will help you teach your children the skills needed to effectively memorize.
How Is Your Child "Smart"?
Children tend to learn in different ways depending on their personalities and their motivation biases. Guest author Rae Pica shares some insights in how to tap into your child's learning style to help them learn, grow and develop their talents.
Children tend to learn in different ways depending on their personalities and their motivation biases. Guest author Rae Pica shares some insights in how to tap into your child's learning style to help them learn, grow and develop their talents.
Ten Rules for Talking to Your Children about Grades
How should a dad handle reviewing a report card with his child? Whether the grades are bad or good or in between, reviewing the grades together can be a good experience with a little preparation. Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller share insights into how to talk about grades and have good results.
How should a dad handle reviewing a report card with his child? Whether the grades are bad or good or in between, reviewing the grades together can be a good experience with a little preparation. Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller share insights into how to talk about grades and have good results.
Are Homework Expectations Realistic For Our Children?
Do parents and teachers sometimes have unrealistic expectations about their kids' homework? Family therapist Sally Sacks suggests some more real approaches to homework that will help both parents and kids take the daily homework challenge.
Do parents and teachers sometimes have unrealistic expectations about their kids' homework? Family therapist Sally Sacks suggests some more real approaches to homework that will help both parents and kids take the daily homework challenge.
Choose a Charter School
More and more states are offering more options for educating our children. Charter schools provide a real choice and are typically either lower cost than private schools and often the same costs as public schools. But how does a dad choose among the charter school options?
More and more states are offering more options for educating our children. Charter schools provide a real choice and are typically either lower cost than private schools and often the same costs as public schools. But how does a dad choose among the charter school options?
Pain in the Back
Many adults suffer from chronic back pain, and our children run the same risk, given the weight of backpacks and the way they wear them. About Fatherhood contributor Dr. Robert Duvall offers recommendations for parents in determining if their children are at risk for back pain and muscle damage.
Many adults suffer from chronic back pain, and our children run the same risk, given the weight of backpacks and the way they wear them. About Fatherhood contributor Dr. Robert Duvall offers recommendations for parents in determining if their children are at risk for back pain and muscle damage.
What Did You Learn in School Today?
About Fatherhood guest contibutors Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller share ideas and tips about getting your children to talk with you about school.
About Fatherhood guest contibutors Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller share ideas and tips about getting your children to talk with you about school.
How Fathers Can Help Their Children Read
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Helping your child become and remain a capable, life-long reader is one of the best things you can do as a dad long-term. Find out ways that dads help their children learn to read and to keep reading.
Involving Fathers at School
This page from the Teachers First web site offers examples of programs in public education that are successfully involving fathers. From math to reading to father training, you can see the types of programs that are offered and what they do for the kids of the involved dads.
This page from the Teachers First web site offers examples of programs in public education that are successfully involving fathers. From math to reading to father training, you can see the types of programs that are offered and what they do for the kids of the involved dads.
Fathers in Schools: How Dads Make a Difference
Here are ways to help fathers connect with the educational system and their kids--more than just the traditional back-to-school night and parent-teacher conferences, including books for dads and kids to read together.
Here are ways to help fathers connect with the educational system and their kids--more than just the traditional back-to-school night and parent-teacher conferences, including books for dads and kids to read together.
Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools
This report commissioned by the National Center for Educational Statistics, details the impact of fathers on their children’s educational setting. You can see what the educational establishment thinks about the role of fathers in public education.
This report commissioned by the National Center for Educational Statistics, details the impact of fathers on their children’s educational setting. You can see what the educational establishment thinks about the role of fathers in public education.
Fathers and Sex Education
How fathers feel about sex education in the schools. The results of a national survey conducted by Zogby International for the Coalition for Adolescent Sexual Health show that fathers strongly support a values based and abstinence based program for teaching their children about sex.
How fathers feel about sex education in the schools. The results of a national survey conducted by Zogby International for the Coalition for Adolescent Sexual Health show that fathers strongly support a values based and abstinence based program for teaching their children about sex.