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What You Get….
1… You get 40 DOWN TO EARTH DAD “audio articles” – (on 4 “AUDIO CDs”) – in a package – for yourself (if you're a dad), or for your program or school to use in your "Lending Library").
2… You get an “Mp3 Player” LOADED to the gills with 40 Down To Earth Dad articles. (The Mp3 player comes with “Ear Buds" – which are those small “headphones” that everyone is using these days in their iPod or computer to listen to music.)
3… Programs and Schools get a “Site License” to “BURN” THESE 40 Audio Tracks (the four CDs and/or the 40 Audio Tracks FROM the Mp3 Player) to a computer. (Or, you can just let your dads "LISTEN TO ALL THE TRACKS" by loaning them the Mp3 player.)
“Tried, Tested, Refined and
Perfected For Most of a DECADE!”
All 40 “audio articles” started out as printed articles appearing in The Down To Earth Dad monthly newsletter. “Each audio article” is based on first-hand personal interviews conducted personally, by me, with other EXPERTS on father involvement. That means your dads are getting GREAT information, and you can be assured of its quality.
“…Teaches Your Dads to
‘Talk the Talk’ and
‘Walk the Walk’ of INVOLVED Fatherhood…”
These audio articles will put an “I’M AN INVOLVED DAD” swagger into your dads’ step! You’ll see it when he walks into your program or school. Your Dads deserve to feel proud—when they’re doing their best to be super-involved fathers. Wouldn’t you agree?
Isn’t it about time to REALLY EMPOWER YOUR DADS to SUCCEED at parenthood?
“This Is ‘Father Involvement Info’
That Can Change Lives!”
Dads tell me they WISH their own fathers had been more involved. These 40 Audio Tracks about father involvement are an insurance policy that the children in your program will have INVOLVED FATHERS. And that can be life-altering in the most positive of ways!!
"Professionally Recorded for Maximum Positive Impact”
Each of these 40 Audio Articles on the FOUR CDS (and on the .MP3 Player) was recorded in a professional recording studio by me, Patrick Mitchell, founding editor and publisher of The Down To Earth Dad monthly newsletter (now in its 9th year of national and international circulation) after much editing and polishing for maximum impact.
It's like a "Dad Workshop" on Audio -- Just For Your Fathers!
This is SUPERB dad-involvement info (over FIVE HOURS of “KEY” father, involvement information) – about HOW to be a SUPER dad.
A SUGGESTION for Programs and Schools: Invite your Dads to “Burn” the CDs, or otherwise COPY the audio files, right onto their own Mp3 player (iPod) if they have one. That’s part of the “deal!” NOTE: This way, they can listen to the tracks on the bus, in their car, at home, or on the job (wherever they’d normally listen to music.)
(There are some restrictions; for instance, you can ONLY “Burn” copies of these audio tracks for your OWN “local” dads in ONE program or school (your "local" program or school only.) You cannot "share" the tracks/Cds/Mp3 player audio files with parents or staff from any other program or school -- just your own families). There's a Site License that you sign and send to us with your check (or FAX it to us separately)... then we fulfill your order.
See The "Play List" Below...
Disk 1
Leveraging Our Boys into Manhood
Successful dads must strike a
balance between being protectors and encouragers as their sons try new things.
They need to anticipate what they need and provide it as elegantly as possible.
The Power of Play
There’s a biological basis and
developmental need for children to play with their fathers—and to play rough
sometimes. Why two-year-olds would make fearsome soldiers if they weighed 400
pounds, and what happens to animals when they play strangely with other animals.
A Father's Magic Touch
…A Good, Simple Thing a Dad Can
Do
How physical touch—bear hugs, back
rubs, and wrestling on the living room floor—make for close father-child
relationships and causes kids to experience less stress, deeper sleep, enhanced
school performance, and better social interactions.
Fathers and Daughters
…Dads Make All the Difference
Dads have a major impact on
their daughters’ cognitive, social, and emotional development—including their
self-esteem. Girls look to their fathers for approval. Why dads need to respect
their daughter’s privacy.
Role Modeling
How father involvement at home
influences a child’s school performance. Why kids achieve more academically, and
enjoy school more, when their dads broaden their life experiences by being
involved.
Problem Solving
…How Dads Help Kids
Tackle Tasks
Dads who teach their
children problem-solving skills teach them to be taskmasters of their own
universe and to succeed in school, and in life.
Fathers and Sons
…‘It's Not Personal; It's Just
Business’
Boys with involved dads have
more confidence to solve problems and tackle frustrating situations. How fathers
prepare their sons for the world in an almost businesslike manner—keeping them
in line, and providing a safety net when they fall.
Gimmee… Gimmee… Gimmee
…How Kids Get What They Think
They Need
How advertising aimed at
children causes stressed out, overworked parents to feel guilty if they don’t
buy what’s being offered, and how kids sometimes capitalize on this guilt by
equating money with love.
Dads Who Stay Home
Over 2 Million American dads
stay home to care for the kids, but don’t get the wrong idea; these guys might
cook, vacuum, and change diapers, but they’re no ‘Mom-Wannabes.’ They’re dads,
through and through.
A Fine Whine
…How to Stop Your Kids From
Talking B a-a-a-a-a-k
Some adults whine about
everything. Keep your kids from becoming one of those adults by tuning in to
their real reasons for whining in the first place.
Disk 2
Setting Limits
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…How to Say "No" To Your Kids
Learn the ‘Golden Rule’ for
telling your children ‘No,’ and teach your kids to set their own limits, thereby
avoiding what a renowned child psychiatrist and child-behavior expert calls
committing ‘parental suicide.’
Significant Males
…Getting Good Men and Kids
Together
Children need their fathers,
and other good men, too, involved in their lives. How good adult-child
relationships can last a lifetime.
Quantity Time
How to make more time for your
kids out of the limited time you have. Why dads who think they’re strengthening
their relationship with their child by spending short bursts of so-called
"quality time" with them might be shortchanging the relationship—if they forget
to log quantity time along the way.
Grandparents
…Separate, Safe, Autonomous
Relationships
How nature has
hard-wired children to receive information from their grandparents. Why the way
you treat your own father today will influence how your child treats you, when
you’re old and gray.
Traveling Dads
...How Fathers Can Stay in Touch
Over the Miles…
Creative strategies for dads
who travel or live separately from their kids—including shared custody and lack
of custody. How to stay in warm, close contact and avoid wasting precious time
playing catch-up when you see your kids.
Calm Ability
...The Capacity for Fathers to
Model Calmness
Dads who model calmness give
their kids a leg up in the world. Meanwhile, anxious, stressed-out fathers can
cause their children to be stressed out too. How to become a calmer dad.
Play and Literacy
…How Dads Help Kids Learn to
Read
How dads beef up their child’s
literacy by adding a few key ingredients to “playtime” with their kids.
Exceptional Dads
…Just Right for Kids with
Special Needs
Dads of kids with special needs
are often wrongly presumed to be detached from their families and unimportant to
their children, but that’s untrue. Like all dads, they have a major influence on
their child with a disability—and lots to share with other fathers.
Admirable Dads
…Why ‘Being
There’—Emotionally—Is So Important
Three things dads must do (and
one thing dads must not do) to be great parents, according to a clinical
professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School.
The Epidemic
…How Parents Can Take Back
Their Kids
How eating dinner with your
kids, going places together, and talking about life prevents them from becoming
selfish, self-serving people who can’t tell right from wrong and who live
without self-control and responsibility.
Disk 3
Teaching Respect
… Saying 'No' Is Not Enough
Does your child kick and scream
and protest when you tell them ‘No?’ That’s not disrespect (believe it or not);
rather, it’s often their anger at feeling powerless, and dads shouldn’t take it
personally. How using humor, and re-directing the child can work wonders when
you feel you’ve just been ‘dissed.’
Say Uncle!
Why inviting Uncle Tim to
dinner tonight is a really good idea, if you can convince him to show up, that
is—because he might not feel fully welcome to interact meaningfully with your
kids.
The Dad Factor
How low self-esteem,
underdeveloped social skills, and poor school performance can plague kids who
don’t have involved fathers.
At Home on the Job
Your job can literally drive
you crazy, if you let it, spoiling time with your kids after work when you’re at
home. How to balance work life and home life—for the sake of your kids (and your
sanity).
Dads Make a Difference
…The Eight Skills of Success
How
dads can cultivate their children’s inherent strengths, and turn their kids into
a raving success in something—anything—from sports to dancing to relating to
others.
Talking To Tots
…How Dads Help Build Kids'
Brains
Talk, talk, (and talk some
more!) to your child, because their brain development depends on LOTS of input
from their dad. How fathers shape their kids’ brains by the things they say and
do, and why, unless you activate their brain by interacting with them, parts of
their brain might never develop at all.
Responsible Kids
…Teaching Your Children to Be
Good People
How to avoid the trap of
punishing-and-rewarding your kids and, instead, teach them to find their way to
responsible adulthood based on the roadmap you provide.
Community Fathers
...How Men in ‘THE HOOD’
Impact Kids’ lives
American neighborhoods have
changed dramatically in the past two decades. Why dads are reluctant to get
involved and role-model positive behaviors to kids on the block. Hear how things
“used to be,” and consider what you can do in your neighborhood today.
Dads Helping Dads
Millions of fathers never
realize their full potential as parents, ignoring many of the strengths and
assets already within them. How to tap your “fathering capacity” for your
children’s sake—and the sake of other people’s kids.
Dad's Club
…Getting Dads Involved at
School
How dads who volunteer at
school—on the playground at lunchtime, and at special events—enhance their
child’s school experience.
Disk 4
The Story
That Must Be Told
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Telling stories to children is
a hallmark of great fatherhood, and the dad who tells his kids stories about
himself bestows upon them wonderful gifts—the lessons, the laughter, and the
secrets of life. How dads become part of the oldest tradition known to man by
opening their memory to their child’s imagination and telling the true stories
of their childhood.
Dads Who Care
…Teach Their Kids to Care Also
Why older children desperately
need their dads to show them love, the same way younger kids crave that same
love, and how dads can role-model caring behaviors their kids will copy as
adults.
Love at First Sight
…The Huge Impact Dads Have on
Newborn's Lives
Two-month-olds expect their
dads to play differently with them than their moms. Fathers jazz things up, and
they expect a different kind of reaction from their child. How this expectation
effects the way children develop.
Kids with Special Needs
…Need Help from Their Community
Some children with autism
and other special needs get hassled by adults in their community—surprising, but
true. How good men can step in and stand up for special-needs kids and their
parents.
Native American Dads
…Getting Connected,
and Staying Involved
American Indian dads, like all
fathers, enjoy strong bonds with their children. Why good things happen when
good men role-model responsible fatherhood to their own children, and to other
in the community.
The Brain of a Dad
…How it Helps Teach Kids to Make
Decisions
Involved dads are
straight-talkers who follow through on their words. They teach how to set and
achieve goals, and how to make decisions. Why dads should protect their
children’s physical brains, and how children deprived of healthy emotional
connections with their fathers have brains that don’t live up to their full
potential.
TV Invasion
…28% of American Infants Have
TVs—In Their Bedrooms!
Children ages zero-to-six spend
as much time watching TV, playing video games, and staring at computer screens
as they do playing outside. How setting “media rules” can boost your child’s
brain development.
Dads Next Door
...They Can Be Great Adult Role
Models!
Kids need dads, but they also
need other men in their lives. How volunteering at school and role modeling
responsible fatherhood in your community enriches kids’ lives.
Down To Earth
What?
How successful dads put their
kids at the top of their priorities. The value of bear hugs, walks around the
block, reading and telling stories, and wrestling on the living room floor.
Kids Need Sleep
...To Do Their Best at School
and at Play
Kids who don’t
get enough sleep can have attention difficulties, become easily frustrated, have
difficulty controlling emotions, have trouble concentrating on schoolwork,
become irritable, and be vulnerable to injury. Hear 10 things dads can do to
help their child get enough sleep.