Watch DOGS
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Watch DOGS Program Info.
The Watch DOGS (Dads Of Great Students) program is a father involvement program focusing on education and safety in schools by using the positive influence of fathers and father-figures for a two-fold purpose:
- to provide an unobtrusive fathering presence, and
- to provide a positive and active role-model for students at the school.
- monitoring school grounds
- working one-on-one or in small groups
- reading
- assisting with student arrival and dismissal
- eating lunch with students
- helping with P.E. and special areas
- listening ears
- or for whatever needs to be done to PLANT SEEDS OF SUCCESS in the lives of the students.
Just Be Present. Just Be Dad.
Sign up at the National Center for Fathering for more tools for the journey.
www.fathers.com
Watch the story about WATCH D.O.G.S. from Matt Lauer and the TODAY Show, aired 2/11/13, featuring the great WatchDOGS of Martinsburg, WV.
The Effects of FatherFULLness:
Research shows that when fathers are involved, their children learn more, perform better in school and exhibit healthier behavior. Even when fathers do not share a home with their children, their active involvement can have a lasting and positive impact. The Education Department is working for fuller recognition and inclusion of fathers in all of their programs because of the huge impact fathers can have on their kids.
Source: A Call to Commitment: Fathers’ Involvement in Children’s Learning, published by the U.S. Department of Education. Updated February 19, 2010.
http://www.education.com/reference/article/father-involvement-important-education/
Father involvement makes a difference in kids’ emotional lives. From a study based on 17,000 children born in the United Kingdom in 1958 who were followed up with at ages 7, 11, 16, 23 and 33:
Source: A Call to Commitment: Fathers’ Involvement in Children’s Learning, published by the U.S. Department of Education. Updated February 19, 2010.
http://www.education.com/reference/article/father-involvement-important-education/
Father involvement makes a difference in kids’ emotional lives. From a study based on 17,000 children born in the United Kingdom in 1958 who were followed up with at ages 7, 11, 16, 23 and 33:
- Children with involved fathers have less emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescence.
- Teenagers who feel close to their fathers in adolescence go on to have more satisfactory adult marital relationships.
- Girls who have a strong relationship with their fathers during adolescence showed a lack of psychological distress in adult life.