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DADS WHO NEED HELP

ABC’s hit parenting show SUPERNANNY is looking for Dads in need of advice and tools to help their kids behave. Your house could be the next home America’s #1 Nanny, Jo Frost visits.

To apply to be on the show or for more information, go to www.Supernanny.com or call 877-NANNY-TIME!

SUPERNANNY is searching for families who want help. And we would like your help in getting the word out. Would you or someone you know love to get hands-on advice and parenting tools from Jo Jo? Families who have been on the show say it's like a fresh start; the show gets there and addresses what you find challenging as a parent . . . it's a chance to step back, make some new choices and get back to enjoying your family!

Submitted by community on Sun, 09/12/2007 - 5:24pm

Do You Encourage Your Children to Play?

Your children need to play. They need to play for many reasons. Many fathers today remember spending countless hours playing with siblings or friends during their childhood. Parents would drop you off somewhere and your imaginations would take over as you became soldiers, famous ballplayers, dinosaur hunters, etc.

There are many factors that make it more difficult for children to play in today’s world. There is an emphasis on early academics. There is more TV watching today by children than ever before. There is the seductive attraction of video games. There is also the need for constant supervision of our kids in urban environments.

These factors and others have helped to create children who sometimes have forgotten how to have imaginative play. They’ll have a house full of toys but say “I’m bored” or that they have nothing to do. They may look to their parents to entertain them, rather than creating their own play.

Submitted by community on Fri, 16/11/2007 - 10:18pm

Fatherly advice re-blog

I've just come across an article on fatherly advice from celebrities dads (at the time I guess). This was published in the pre-web era of 1993 in Ebony. It doesn't appear in their online archives - so I thought let's re-blog it (recognizing the copyright of 1993 Johnson Publishing Co. and 2004 Gale Group) to see whether the fathers of 1993 had something valuable to say for dads in 2007.

Father to son: prominent fathers give fatherly advice on Father's Day - advice from fathers Bill Cosby, Roland W. Burris, W.W. Herenton, Jesse Jackson, Percy Sutton and L. Douglas Wilder

ACTING on the assumption that father knows best--at least when it comes to telling Junior how to straighten up and fly right--EBONY approached six highly distinguished fathers with the request to dispense some fatherly advice to young Black male Americans. The request for some heart-to-heart talk from "father to son" was prompted by EBONY's increasing awareness that if any group is in desperate need of sound advice and direction, it is young African-American men, many of whom live on the cutting edge of poverty and despair. There is hardly a single group in America that is more embattled and beset with problems, and thus more endangered, than young Black men. Their problems run the gamut from a hostile racist environment, unemployment, gang pressure, substandard housing and substandard schools to drug trafficking, substance abuse and incarceration, to name only a few.

Submitted by stefan on Thu, 13/09/2007 - 11:38pm