Dads Need to PLAY!
A recent article on MSNBC is telling the world what fatherhood professionals and most fathers know already. Dads need to play with kids because they play differently. When dads play with their kids they are TEACHING. Many folks will say that dads just play with the kids and are not parenting them all the time. This article and a ton of research says that one of the best ways that fathers actually parent is through play. Play allows kids to experience the world in a way that they can learn how to negotiate through it as a child and later as an adult. This is a great article. You can read the article HERE
J. Michael Hall, M.Ed. is the Founder and President of Strong Fathers-Strong Families, LLC. He has facilitated father-child events in schools and Head Starts for over 75,000 fathers, trained thousands of professionals in education and child care and has written numerous magazine articles and book chapters. He is the father to two teenage boys and husband to a beautiful middle school teacher.
