Just read a great article pointing out the success of students when dad is involved at their school.
When fathers attend school events and visit the classroom, studies demsontrate a students ability to achieve more. FYI…our Middle School Pastor is the PTA president at Woodstock Middle School (Go Rick!).
Read the entire article here
- Girls who grow up without a biological father are likely to physically mature faster, reach puberty at a younger age than their peers and have earlier pregnancies.
- The most significant influences on children’s choices of how they spent their free time were their own personalities and their parents’ interest in their activities.
- Young children may take the absence of their father as a personal rejection. They begin to think their dad is not around because there’s something wrong with them.
- It’s more important for a dad to be at home and around for his kid’s extracurricular activities than putting in inordinate hours at the office. Dad’s presence is more desirable to a child than life’s luxuries.
- Parents, and especially fathers, influence their children throughout middle adolescence.
- Parental participation transcends gender and relates to a mutual respect and admiration between the parent and child.
- It is necessary for all parents and children to participate in enjoyable experiences together.
Matt is an author, husband, dad, and the high school pastor at First Baptist Woodstock just outside Atlanta. He believes teenagers can love Jesus with all their heart and change the world for Him! For exclusive content, be sure to subscribe by email.
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