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Role of A Father in Child Development

The role of a father in bringing up a child is as important as that of the mother’s. Due to their innate ability of caregiving, and sharing the physical bond with the child even before the birth, mothers have always had the upper hand in nurturing the child. But various researchers have shown that the relationship of a father with the child significantly impacts the behavior, intellect, and various courses of action of the child from birth to death.

Below are some of the reasons why a father plays a crucial role in the overall development of the child.

1.   Spending Quality Time Reduces Disruptive Behavior

Studies have shown that when a father spends more quality time with the child during the first year, the child is unlikely to show any harmful or disruptive behaviors during the second year.

2.   Good Bonding Enhances Cognitive Competence

A positive father-child bond increases the intellectual capabilities of the child. Researchers have shown that when the father interacts with the child in a way being observant of the child’s behavior and individual needs, the child is more likely to be good at curricular and extra-curricular activities. On the contrary, a negative and irresponsible interaction with the child can result in the child dropping out of the school.

3.   Developing Good Rapport Improves Problem-Solving Skills

A good relationship instills better problem-solving skills in the child. The child also would not have issues adapting to a new environment or significant changes in the further course of time.

4.   Good Nurturing Decreases Emotional And Behavioral Issues

Children with the right father are less likely to develop issues associated with depression, aggression, frustration, and low self-esteem. They also hardly adapt to substance abuse problems, like alcohol or drugs, thereby reducing the health risks significantly.

5.   Treating Child Well Leads A Pathway To Future Relationships

The way the father treats the mother and the child greatly influences the future relationship patterns of the child. A girl will look for a man having the qualities similar to those of her father’s. Thus, if the father is jovial, caring, sensible, and kind, she would find a man with these qualities apt. Boys tend to imitate and inculcate their dad’s behavior. Therefore, the gentle, loving, and caring behavior of a father will take his son a long way!

6.   An Earliest Strong Bond Leads To More Stability Of Child

The earliest bonding that happens with the child impacts the way the child gets settled in its life. Better the bond, greater the stability, since it erases the insecurities. Children become self-sustaining and resilient.

7.   Father Doing Household Chores Helps Overcome Gender Bias

With changing times, around 60% of the women work, as against the past, where women were bound to household chores. That, in most of the cases, leads to sharing of responsibilities of the family, babysitting, and finances between the father and the mother. That, in turn, lays a concrete foundation in the child, where there is no room for gender bias.

8.   Understanding the Teenager in Your Life - will make your child one grown up Happy person 

The challenges that we face as parents of teenagers can be extreme, and our teens, whether they know it or not, need us even more. As we step from one era into the next, the challenges that we face as parents can bring us to our knees or, at the least, to the verge of tears.

Here are just a few suggestions that I can offer you, to perhaps create a smoother transition through these trying years of both your own and your child's development:

1. Seek info about teen development. Talk with other parents.
2. Know that you're doing your best as a parent and value your increasing wisdom
4. Have a positive attitude about your changing teen and your life changes.
5. Talk to your teen with 2-way communication. Listen and share things that are important to you both.
6. Stay interested in your teen's life. Spend time with your teen and encourage them.
7. Keep your perspective and sense of humor.
8. Enjoy your teen! Consider what you appreciate about your teen and let them know.
9. Most important of all, tell your teens how much you love them, because love heals all, and speaks much louder than words.

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