The National Dads Matter!™ Project
"Dedicated to providing dads with tools to build stronger bonds with their kids."
"The father needs to be there, especially with boys. They need that male role model. Without a father at home, a lot of times children don’t have that authoritative figure or that person to try and emulate."
A National Dads Matter!™ Project Father
For Schools, Parents, and Programs
The Down To Earth
Dad®, founded in 1999 by Patrick Mitchell,
helps schools, parents, and programs enhance children's cognitive, social, and
emotional development via increased father involvement in their lives.
Educators and parents can
subscribe to
The Down To Earth Dad monthly
newsletter -- now in its 10th year of circulation -- to celebrate father
involvement where it is present, and to "beef up" father involvement where it is
lacking.
The Down To Earth Dad® helps educators and parents optimize father involvement in schools, programs, homes, and communities, by providing workshops & trainings, and through a parent-involvement and literacy-enhancement resource called Family Storytelling Night®.