How To Be A Model Dad?

It’s easy! All you need to do is follow this step-by-step guide to be more involved in your child’s emotional development.

- Prachi S Vaish

TOMES HAVE been written for mothers—thousands of words that exalt them, list what’s expected of them, spell out their roles. By comparison, literature on how dads can contribute, feels like a footnote. Several researches have provided irrefutable evidence that the influence fathers yield, plays a pivotal role in the complete development of the child. But what exactly does this mean? Here’s an age-by-age guide for dads to know how they can be more involved in their kid’s life.

All the strategies we have elaborated on below, can, of course, be implemented by mothers as well. However, we have presented them from a dad’s point of view because, besides being a provider of material comforts, in India, a dad’s role needs to become more in-depth in child-rearing. And given our cultural set-up, it is often that new dads do not have role models to look up to. So even though they would like to be more involved in their children’s lives, they usually don’t know how to go about it. Let these suggestions act as a guide and help fathers step into the area of their child’s emotional development, with confidence.

BIRTH TO 2 YEARS

Technically, this is the most crucial time for mothers because, after all, they are the ones who give birth. So you would think that a dad’s scope here is limited but you’d be surprised. Just by being a little proactive, fathers can make the arrival of the new baby a much more joyous and relaxed experience for the entire family.

The Background Prep