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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!