The Daddy & Family Magazine Winter 2014 Issue #1 | Page 64

your accomplishment and dedication. Your children are at a distinct advantage and are less likely to get into trouble or be involved in incomplete or damaging relationships when they grow up. Involved fathers feel more self-confident and effective as parents, enjoy richer relationships with their children, and more frequently have marital stability. Steps To Success How do you become a more involved father? Invest in your child. Spend time, attend activities, events, programs, contests, and ballgames in which your child is involved, know who her friends and her friends’ parents are, get to know his teachers and coaches, provide a loving framework, set appropriate limits, and show respect for your child. Your role in your child’s life is pivotal. Fathers have an important influence on their children and so many children lack the benefit of a committed, loving dad. Make sure you do all you can with this gift you’ve been given. Bill Black has devoted his adult life to raising successful children and to his work as a university administrator. He has taken his professional expertise and authored a number of articles and book chapters on management of human resources in the work setting. Now he is using his experience as a parent and his background in writing to help men be better fathers. Having raised two boys himself, with tremendous help from the consistent and loving hand of his wife, he knows what it is to struggle as a man through the challenges of parenthood and look in vain for help. Through his partnership with Tom Tozer, he hopes to make it a little easier for other men. Tom Tozer is a former high-school English, Tom Tozer istheater teacher, radio English, marketing director for speech and a former high-school deejay, speech and theater a publishing company and university director of news and public marketing director for a publishing such teacher, radio deejay, affairs. He is a published author of works as Raising Responsible Teenagers (Group), Letters universityOccasion: Anews and public affairs. He is company and for Every director of Pastor’s Sourcebook (Abingdon) and Ready-to-Use Letters for Youth Ministry (Group). While his wife opened a new marketa published author of such works as Raising Responsible research office in Kansas, Tom served a two-year stint as a fulltime Mr. Mom with daughters, ages 2 and 4. Teenagers (Group), Letters for Every Occasion: A Pastor’s He says he never worked so hard. Now he Sourcebooktime to volunteerism, writing and the highly devotes his (Abingdon) and Ready-to-Use Letters for Youth rewarding enterprise that is Dads2Dads. Ministry (Group). While his wife opened a new market-research office in Kansas, Tom served a two-year stint as a fulltime Mr. Bill and Tom write a syndicated column called “Dads2Dads” and are authors4. He says he never worked so Mom with daughters, ages 2 and of the new book Dads2Dads: We Survived and You Can Too – Tools for Raising Teenagers (Plushis time to volunteerism, writing and the hard. Now he devotes a Few Tirades). Visit them at www.dads2dadsllc.com highly rewarding enterprise that is Dads2Dads. Bill and Tom write a syndicated column called “Dads2Dads” and are authors of the new book Dads2Dads: We Survived and You Can Too – Tools for Raising Teenagers (Plus a Few Tirades) . Visit them at www.dads2dadsllc.com Are YOU trying to become a dad?! –yes? Then eat your greens! A study published in Nature Communications found that fathers with a diet deficient in folate (found in greens such as spinach, sprouts and broccoli) were more likely to have offspring with abnormalities of the head, face and sternum (breastbone) and abnormalities of the head, face and sternum on the brain. a buildup of fluid (breastbone) and a buildup of fluid onare planning to have a baby soon, ramp up your So if you the brain. intake of green vegetables and cut out junk food for 3 months before conceiving- your future generations will thank you!