Comments on: Fatherhood – Bonding With Your Child

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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:28:47 +0000

[...] Fatherhood – Bonding With Your Child posted at More4Kids. This is a great post if you are a new dad or expectant dad. Bonding with your new child can be both fun and a little scary. Luckily there is much more information out there for new dads and more resources to help them. [...]

By: Philip Anderson

Philip Anderson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:45:46 +0000

I have 4 girls and I feed,change,give baths, meds, read bed stories
I've done all of the feeding from the time I get home from work until I go to work the next morning. and mywife get to rest alittle bit. weekends
while my is sleeping me and the girls sneak out go get breakfast
go to the park museums anywhere I love to be and do for my kids because my wife is home all day until all the daycare kids are gone
and she has to go to school or bible school or meetins. so ilove to be with my kids cause my father was ther for me even though he wasn't wanted he showed me that he loved me. he did what ever he could to be in my life and that's why my bond with him is 100times stronger then most kids that lived in the same house as their dads and this very day my dad and I still bond and we bond with my 3 older girls I have 4 girls
ages 4-3-2 and 4 months so thats my story and also my 21yr old brother
bonds with my dad just like they are father and son when Igot shoes my dad got my brother shoes also any where we went my dad took my lil brother and to day my brother love my dad just as much as I do

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:31:43 +0000

Being a new parent is a challenge, I can imagine it is very different for a dad. I am glad to see that there is more out there to help new dads.

Here via the carnival of family life.

By: Rory

Rory — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:18:54 +0000

I think the playing field can be leveled. The suggestions you make are very helpful. If fathers are "hands-on" right from the start, with no misconception that various areas are the Mother's Domain (breasts notwithstanding) then there will be no reason for the Father to wind up as second port of call.

A Father does not relinquish his position as breadwinner and head of the family by nappy-changing, feeding and shopping together. On the contrary he solidifies those roles.

By: Local Girl

Local Girl — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:37:30 +0000

It was very hard for my husband when our first daughter was born. Up until then, he never even carried an infant. And it didn't help that he comes from a family of boys! Needless to say, he was very hesitant.

With our second daughter, he's an old pro! He can change a diaper faster than I can! LOL1

Thanks for sharing this with the Carnival of Family Life.