Study links dads’ stress levels to kids’ development
Parenting is stressful business. Not only do your kids often drive you crazy, the responsibility of caring for them, and providing for them, adds layer after layer of anxiety and frustration to your daily life. It’s worth it, of course, because you love your kids so much, but that actually makes it worse. Your children are so important to you, it makes everything else more important too.
The pressure of taking care of your kids is intense. But a new study proves that its important to take of yourself too. Especially dads.
According to a new study out of Michigan State University, scientists have determined that kids’ mental and behavioral development is strongly linked to their fathers’ moods. I guess I’d better stop watching the Dolphins play.
In some ways, the news from this study is heartening. As more and more dads take on bigger parenting roles, it’s important for studies like this to reinforce the impact fathers have on their kids, positive and negative. Moms may still be Queen Parent, but dads play a significant role too.
“The findings contribute to the small but growing collection of research affirming the effects of fathers’ characteristics and father-child relationship qualities on children’s social development, rather than just the fathers’ residence in the home or presence in the child’s life.”............................
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