Comments on: Fathering http://blogs.goddardschool.com/blog/2010/01/18/fathering/ Welcome to The Goddard School Blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:42:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gary Taylor http://blogs.goddardschool.com/blog/2010/01/18/fathering/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Gary Taylor Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:46:20 +0000 http://blogs.goddardschool.com/?p=281#comment-27 This study has a simple and obvious conclusion. Too bad the "obvious" emerging from a scientific study is not so obvious in way too many family lives. I'm a retiree, grandfather, and sub teacher in SoCal. Subs can say and ask things the regular teacher doesn't get to. I try to make the arrival of memorable event. My observations from all over San Diego and Riverside Counties confirms kids with dads and granddads nearby and in the picture are my better kids. Not scientific, but confirms my personal prejudice: grandfathering in our culture is a missing ingredient. But patriarchs have a role. My soninlaw (Licensed MFT) and I are starting a book, Generational Fathering, to encourage and promote the overlaop of previous generations in the family dynamic. I actively "partner" with Matt, even from the distance of 600 miles. Question for Dr. Pruett: Do you have any studies or references to reinforce the old "tribal" notion that elders and grandfathers can be significant in our current scattered and busy and electronically preoccupied (among young Millennials)? This study has a simple and obvious conclusion. Too bad the “obvious” emerging from a scientific study is not so obvious in way too many family lives. I’m a retiree, grandfather, and sub teacher in SoCal. Subs can say and ask things the regular teacher doesn’t get to. I try to make the arrival of memorable event. My observations from all over San Diego and Riverside Counties confirms kids with dads and granddads nearby and in the picture are my better kids. Not scientific, but confirms my personal prejudice: grandfathering in our culture is a missing ingredient. But patriarchs have a role. My soninlaw (Licensed MFT) and I are starting a book, Generational Fathering, to encourage and promote the overlaop of previous generations in the family dynamic. I actively “partner” with Matt, even from the distance of 600 miles.

Question for Dr. Pruett: Do you have any studies or references to reinforce the old “tribal” notion that elders and grandfathers can be significant in our current scattered and busy and electronically preoccupied (among young Millennials)?

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