Category: For You Dad
New Family Reunification Factsheet for Parents and Caregivers
This year’s National Foster Care Month theme is “Honoring, Uniting, and Celebrating Families.”
Seven Tips for Low-Cost Memory Making Activities
As a dad it can be easy to get a caught up in the idea that the most important part of your job as a parent has to do with the material things you give to your kids.
Healing the Hurt: Father-Absence Impacts the Mental Health of Black Boys
“At some point in their life every man is vulnerable.”
Finding ways to take time to be a Dad
What are you planning to do with your family this weekend? Or next weekend? Or the weekend after that? Coordinating schedules and managing our time is a […]
The Benefits of Young Children Playing Pretend
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of […]
Four Fun Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day
On Mother’s Day, many fathers seek ways to honor the mothers of their children. Great fatherhood includes being great partners.
5 Ways to Express Thankfulness to your Children’s Mom
Mothers have a pretty thankless job. They are the backbone of the family—the glue that holds it together so to speak. Single moms especially are generally overworked […]
Fatherhood, Incarceration, Reentry, Children with Incarcerated Parents
On any given day in America, it is estimated that more than 1.7 million children under 18 years old have a parent incarcerated in a state (52%) or federal prison (63%)—91% of all incarcerated parents are fathers.
The Seriousness of Mental Illness and Black Families
May is Mental Health Awareness Month…Fathers Incorporated will be sharing information particularly for Black Families.
Fathers Incorporated Host Daddy Diaper Drive in Sponsorship with Huggies
Fathers Incorporated launched a Daddy Diaper Drive in sponsorship with Huggies for Atlanta fathers. The drive’s focus is to serve low-income fathers 25 years of age and younger. “Changing Diapers is such a special part of Fatherhood”
Creating a Lifetime Memory by Bringing Your Child to Work
When the daughter of one of my employees was about eight years old he took her to work at the environmental engineering firm that I owned. Once […]
Fathers Incorporated’s Favorite TV Dads
Through the years we have had strong yet beautiful images of Black fathers on television. For no particular reason we just decided to share our favorite because […]
Can You Keep Gossip In Check?
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve found out that someone was talking trash about you behind your back or worse… spreading lies, you are […]
Unraveling the Technological Coil of Parenting
#throwbackblog By Kenneth Braswell (February 5, 2011) The 1970’s were an interesting time of social development for pre teens and teenagers. Much like those before us, we grew […]
Keeping Children Safe At Any Age: Safety Tips for Dads
Accidents can happen to anyone, sometimes even under Dad’s watchful eye. The most important thing dads can do to keep their children safe is stay informed about […]