It used to irk Melissa Calapini when her 3-year-old daughter, Haley, hung around her father while he fixed his cars. Ms. Calapini thought there were more enriching things the little girl could be doing with her time.
But since the couple attended a parenting course — to save their relationship, which had become overwhelmed by arguments about rearing their children — Ms. Calapini has had a change of heart. Now she encourages the father-daughter car talk.
“Daddy’s bonding time with his girls is working on cars,” said Ms. Calapini, of Olivehurst, Calif. “He has his own way of communicating with them, and that’s O.K.”
Read more of this New York Times article online at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03dads.html?_r=1
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
As child welfare professionals need to understand, fathers can play an important role in the safety of children if we would only recognize their potential contributions. Yet many still disregard the possibilities when they allow the father to fade in the background. Some due to the fact that they don't know how to address men in the child welfare framework. NYS is trying to address this by focussing on locating absent fathers and their extended family.
ReplyDelete