Category: For You Dad

Fathers Incorporated Addresses Black Dads and Mental Health

Fathers Incorporated (FI) released Mental Health Matters, Why Black Dad’s Positive Mental Health Is Good for Youth Academic Outcomes, the second brief in the series of educational briefs addressing fatherhood engagement for low-income African American students and their families.

New Year Reflections for Black Love

Even a pair of 50-year-olds decided to become romantically involved after having been friends decades earlier. In this case, both had been married and divorced before moving back to town to help care for their aging parents.

What You Should Look For in a Preschool

A preschool can look great on paper and you can easily be fooled by seemingly overenthusiastic adults. But the one thing that can’t pull off a lie no matter what is a kid’s face.

5 Tips for Raising a Healthy and Active Toddler

With 40 percent of all adults in the United States being officially labeled as obese, it makes us dads worry a bit. We do not want our young sons or daughters to learn bad habits early on in life that will lead to weight problems.

Why Dads Need to Teach Their Daughters to Love STEM

In their early years of school, girls excel at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. But somewhere around the junior high age, girls begin turning away from their interest in STEM.

Fathers Incorporated Launches Drive To Five Campaign

The Drive to Five messaging campaign will equip and empower fathers with the necessary tools to understand the importance of and fully develop their role as fathers, encouraging them to engage positively with their children during the most formative years of life–up to age 5.

The Black Panther and the Queen

Much can be absorbed from Black Panther. My hope is that we use it as a motivational push to learn more about the level of pride and honor that we so desperately need in our community.