New Calendars for February-NOW with an EXTRA DAY
Here are the calendars for both schools and early childhood environments. Do not be alarmed, there is supposed to be an extra day this year.
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Happy New Year! Happy New Calendars!
Happy New Year from Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC
Here are your Early Childhood Activity Calendars and Strong Family Check in Calendars for your school, your Head Start, or your home!
January 2012 Early Childhood Activity Calendar E&S
January 2012 Check-In Calendar E&S
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November Calendars
Thanks to many of you who reminded us to get these posted. I think I was dealing with a Fun Size Snickers Sugar Crash Today. Had a great Halloween with the nieces and nephew (the Strong Sons are too old to go door to door but still young enough to eat bags of candy!) Here are your calendars for schools and early childhood activities.
November 2011 Early Childhood Calendar-Spanish
November 2011 Early Childhood Calendar-English
November 2011 Check In Calendar-English and Spanish
We would still love to know how you are using these in your schools and programs.
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School and Early Childhood Calendars for October
Here are your OCTOBER calendars in English and Spanish for schools and Early Childhood Programs. You may use these calendars in your organization as long as you leave all of our information on the calendars. If you would like to copy and paste a few of your events on the calendar before you copy it for your families feel free as long as you leave our logo and websites in place.
Let us know in the comments section that you are using them and how.
Oct-11 Check In Calendar Spanish
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September Check In Calendars are HERE!
Use these for your school to help parents ask better questions than “What did you do at school today?” Which is always answered by “Nothin” . These are good questions that require even more than a yes or no.
Copy and pass out all you want.
September 2011 Check In Calendar
September 2011 Check In Calendar-Spanish
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3 Keys to strong father involvement programs
Strong Fathers-Strong Families has facilitated hundreds of programs for thousands of fathers and families. This video from our recent training at the NHSA Annual Parent Training Conference gives you a little insight to what we have learned works for good programming.
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Opening Books to Fathers and Children
Strengthening Children’s Literacy
When most people think about parent-child reading activities, they likely picture a mother quietly reading to their children. Very few people would envision a reading event for just fathers and children. Even fewer would envision a reading event where these same fathers and children are acting like donkeys, elephants, and gorillas. That is exactly what happens, however, at a Dad and Kid Reading Night sponsored by Strong Fathers-Strong Families.
Dad and Kid Reading Night encourages and teaches fathers to read to their children. The program’s effectiveness is derived from using the inherent strengths of fathers. Instead of teaching men to read in a softer, more feminine way, these events model a more lively, no-holds-barred approach to reading and interacting with their children. In this activity men and children are settled into the floor together and a facilitator reads to them in a typically masculine way with lots of excitement, crazy voices, and noises. The books are carefully chosen both to reflect the father-child dynamic and to facilitate lively activity between the child and the father. To make this event effective, a Dad and Kid Reading Night must be interactive, relational, and focused on child outcomes.
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Strong Fathers as Strong Teachers
Part 3: The Father’s Role in Education
As fathers take on a collaborative role with the school in teaching children, a father’s role can be defined by certain qualities and behaviors associated with being a man and a father. Three key components of a father’s role in the growth and learning of his children include the actual quality of being a man and a parent, his expectations regarding the future path for his children, and the way in which he teaches and engages his children through play and interaction. These elements help to define a father’s role as a teacher of his children and a strong supporter of their formal and informal education.
Fathers, Masculinity, and Learning in the Outside World
Fathers exert a significant influence on children simply by virtue of their masculinity and the interactions they engage in that frame a child’s encounters with the larger world. Fathers and mothers come to their experience with a child some- what differently, in the beginning, simply by virtue of their gender.
From the time a child is conceived, it begins its life in the body of the mother (stop me if you have heard this before) and even from the moment of conception prepares to move away from the mother for the rest of his or her life. The father, who had a role in the conception of the child, primarily has only to wait and furnish support while the child is formed inside the mother. At the birth of the child, the mother typically has a very strong bond and a profound basis for a relation- ship with this child: it is of her and from her. Mother and child have spent a significant amount of time physically together that has contributed to this tremendous personal bond. It is arguable as well that the mother acts as she does and bonds as a parent because she is feminine and has gone through the incredible physical, chemical, emotional, and perhaps spiritual change of childbirth. The father has a more limited basis for his relationship with the child to begin with, as he has been waiting on the outside of the two bodies that were joined together. Read the rest of this entry »
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Strong Fathers as Strong Teachers
Part 2:Schools and Fathers: Same Goals, Different Roles
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics, there are 14,559 public school districts representing more than 94,000 school campuses in our country. Those public schools represent approximately 48 million students enrolled in elementary and secondary cam- puses. Those 48 million students are from 25.8 million married-couple families, eight million single-mother families, and 1.9 million single-father families.1 Even though they may approach it differently, these schools and families are both in the business of helping the same 48 million children.
Fathers and schools play incredibly similar roles in the lives of children. Both care for children and are interested in their becoming independent and successful in the adult world. Fathers and schools both spend an incredible amount of time working to prepare children to possess the skills necessary to be successful. When they do their best work, both fathers and schools are involved in the same endeavor from different angles but working for the same outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »
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