Mike
Carruthers:
We've
always had a sense that fathers are important in raising good
kids, but now there's solid research that explains why.
James Windell:
Well
for one thing the way fathers play with children is much different.
Fathers have a more physical, roughhousing type of play.
James Windell,
co-author of the book, The
Fatherstyle Advantage says his research shows that that
type of play has real benefits for kids.
Girls for instance
that grow up with fathers that play physically with them do
better in school, career and in relationships. It helps children
to deal with their emotions.
Fathers also
have different expectations of their children than mothers do.
They let kids
know that there are these high expectations and they want them
to live up to them. And I think for that reason children want
to please their fathers.
And fathers tend
to encourage risk-taking in their children.
And that's so
important as they go on in life and I think we see this with
play a lot. Fathers are the ones that are throwing their kids
up in the air -they always catch them of course - but mothers
are always worried and when they're on the playground, mothers
always hover more while fathers will allow children to do more
daring things. And that's true all the way through childhood
and adolescence that fathers want to encourage children to do
things on their own.
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