20 reasons why your child needs you to be an active father

Dads play a very crucial role in the health and mental development of their children. However, many fathers simply ignore the responsibilities associated with this role showing vague reasons. Children need fathers who love, care, and put enough attention to them in a consistent manner. Here are listed below the 20 reasons why your child needs you to be an active father:

1. Children must realize that you love them more than just saying “I love you, my little angel !”. Loving fathers should demonstrate love by spending quality time with the children and caring for them enough.
2. Kids regardless of gender children need positive role models (male or female) in life to get inspiration for professional growth. Active fathers can promote positive behaviors by setting a proper example for their children.
3. Active fathers listen, pay enough attention, and support emotionally their children when they experience joy, sadness, anger, fear, and frustration.
4. Financial as well as material (along with emotional support) resources are also very important for every child, and efficient fathers are most likely avail all the necessary resources (e.g., food, clothing, shelter, quality medical care) required by their children.
5. Being fully involved and through strong emotional bondage, active fathers enrich the self-esteem of their kids.
6. The active involvement of fathers helps to enhance the child’s intellectual development.
7. Father can educate as well as prevent children from early sexual activity.
8. True involvement of father lowers a child’s chances of school failure or early dropout, active father’s involvement rather supports their children’s academic success.
9. From infancy, children need proper guidance and discipline provided by parents. Active fathers play an important role in teaching their children proper behavior by setting and enforcing healthy limits.
10. The research found more suicide cases among children with uninvolved fathers.
11. Children with active fathers are less likely to commit any juvenile delinquency than children with inactive fathers.
12. Through love, affection as well as alerting (warning i.e.) against wrong deeds, fathers can lower children tend towards criminal activities in the future (in their adult age).
13. An active father’s involvement develops a sense of security (emotional and physical) through a trustful relationship, and thus the child doesn’t feel abandoned.
14. By playing regularly (mean whenever to find the time) fathers develop a healthy relationship with the children thus they enhance cognitive ability along with the physical development.
15. Active fathers try to answer all the questions (considered to be life’s important questions as well) of their children, in this way children learn with skills and grow naturally.
16. Both parents active involvement promotes healthy gender identity in the child. Fathers can help to promote positive behaviors by setting a proper example among children (especially boys).
17. The direct involvement of both parents facilitates a child’s moral development and sound character thereafter.
18. Men and women usually differ in their parenting styles. So father’s involvement also provides the child with an alternative perspective on life.
19. Principals (ethics, manner, approaches, etc.) are very important in life, especially for the boys. So fathers can guide and assist kids to establish essential principals that are very important and essential throughout life.
20. Essential life skills that children need to survive are learned at home. Every father has a duty to teach their children valuable skills that will definitely help them to grow up to be healthy and productive adults.