Assignment 10: The Role of Fathers

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Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize the role of fathers in children’s language and literacy development.

Directions: Consider what you have just read in the required readings for this week` and the three articles “Building blocks for father involvement Head Start” 1, 2 & 3, then ask yourself:

1. How are the ideas or information presented on father involvement connected to what you already knew?
2. What new ideas did you get that extended or broadened your thinking in new directions?
3. What challenges or puzzles have come up in your mind from the ideas and information presented on father involvement?
4. Then, use the Connect-Extend-Challenge (attached below) handout to synthesize the information you’ve just read.CONNECT-EXTEND-CHALLENGE

   Consider what you have just read, heard, or seen, then ask yourself:

   · 1. How are the ideas or information presented connected to what you already knew?

   · 2. What new ideas did you get that extended or broadened your thinking in new directions?

   · 3. What challenges or puzzles have come up in your mind from the ideas and information presented?

    

    

   CONNECT	EXTEND	CHALLENGE
   The ideas presented are connected to what I already knew. For example, I knew that the relationship between father and child was very important for the child. But I didn’t know why. With the information presented I learned that this relationship is struggle related with social, emotional and thinking skills of the child. We all know that fathers tend to play rougher and tumbles games with their children than moms. Thanks to the information I could learned that this is beneficial for the children. Since this game with the father build longer muscle and give the children self-control over their body. Also, mothers tend toward caution while fathers often encourage kids to push the limits. I learned that fathers with higher education levels are more likely to be involved with their school-aged children. I knew that the types of literacy activities pursued by men have conformed to perceptions of masculinity; such as ‘Do-It-Yourself’ books, car maintenance manuals and sports magazines about such interests as football or biking. What I didn’t know was that fathers share this type of reading material with their children, particularly their sons, leading some to suggest that reading between fathers and sons may be associated with masculine bonding. children who feel a closeness and warmth with their father are twice as likely to enter college. Children who grow up with absent fathers can suffer lasting damage.	Some of the new ideas that I learned today was that when a father is involved during the prenatal period, he is also likely to be more involved in parenting lately on. This information helped me to think how important is that mothers encourage and support father’s positive involvement in their pregnancy. I learned about the term the ‘new father’ who is more involved in family life than fathers of earlier generations; he assumes multiple roles, including not only ‘breadwinner’, but also career and educator. Regardless, fathers’ visible participation in the family literacy programs is low. Something that I would never imagine was that fathers might be more likely to engage in literacy activities with daughters than sons, since literacy is often perceived as a feminine pursuit. It was helpful for me to learned that there are fathering programs that serve a range of fathers, embracing a variety of specific goals that encourage father-child connectedness. I learned that father’s talk tends to be briefer, directive, and to the point while mothers tend to be more descriptive, personal, and verbally encouraging. For this reason, I think is very important that children learn how to understand and use both styles of conversation. In conclusion I can say that I extended my knowledge about the importance of the father’s involvement in the life of their children, how different and similar is the role of a mother and the role of a father and how this affect the future of the child, in decisions like getting in college or don’t get involve in any troubles.	Some challenges that come up to my mind after reading the material was how to engage more fathers in the literacy programs. From one of the studies only 39% of the children said that their fathers shared some literacy activities with them at home. Also, in the United States a survey found that over 40% of fathers never read to their children. Many participants in literacy programs are women. Maybe this is happening because most are provided during the working day means they are less accessible to men. For this reason, another challenge for me would be to create literacy programs available online, with a flexible schedule that can allow fathers to participate as well and provide literacy opportunities for fathers at home. As we learned fatherless family growth over the decades, I would like to learn strategies to help these children who suffer from the absence of their father and have been raised by single mothe

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