TO THE AVANCE FATHERHOOD ONLINE

A father carries pictures where his
money used to be. — Unknown

PURPOSE

The AVANCE Fatherhood Program is committed to:

• Enabling fathers to become involved and loving dads
• Enhance family unity
• Increasing father’s role in their children’s education
• Improve interpersonal relationships among couples

TOPICS

The Presentations focus on enhancing personal development and life-coping skills

• Are dads really unique?
• Benefits of a healthy marriage
• Age appropriate discipline
• Family communication
• The father as a role model
• Better parents, better children
• Spending time alone with your child
• Tips for new dads
• Values clarification

Topics also include:

• Parenting issues,
• communication,
• interpersonal relationships,
• and  parents as a team

METHODOLOGY: DYNAMIC – PRACTICAL

• Interactive lessons
• Support group sessions
• Presentations by field experts
• Hands-on activities
• Educational field trips

SUPPORT SERVICES:

• Classes conducted in English and Spanish

• On site child care

• Food/refreshments provided

• Advocacy and referrals

CLASS SCHEDULES

Cluster # 1

Acres Homes

Osborne

Meetings will be held at Acres Homes on

Mondays 6:30-8:30 pm

Cluster # 2

Mt Houston

Oakwood

Meetings will be held at Mt Houston on

Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 pm

Cluster # 3

Jensen

Helms/Hardy/Jefferson

Meetings will be held at Jensen on

Wednesdays 6:30-8:30pm

Cluster # 4

Dacoma II

Browning/Drew/ Golden Forest/ Golf

Meetings will be held at Dacoma II on

Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm

Cluster # 5

Cordero de Dios

Community of South East. Meetings will be held at Cordero de Dios Church

12515 Astoria, Houston TX 77089 Mondays , 6:30-8:30pm

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The Fatherhood Program will meet weekly

• Once with fathers only
• Twice as a couple
• Once as a family

STAFF:

• Héctor A Rodríguez, Coordinator, Ext. 203

• Samuel Puccio, Counselor

• Mike Grady, Facilitator

FATHERHOOD PROGRAM

 THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING PARENTS

By: Héctor A Rodríguez D.

Being parents is an event that transforms us and challenges our personal development. That is why it is necessary to ask ourselves:

What does it mean to be an adult?

Our knowledge of development can be useful in many areas of our family life. It can make us feel more secure in ourselves; make us more flexible and more understanding in certain situations and will help us to better enjoy the wonderful adventure that it is to be parents.

Being an adult parent means closely examining the problem of discipline: what is it, what does it mean and what it should be. Our problems can’t be solved by forcing our children to obey us, or leaving them to do what they wish without clear controls and limits. Remember that nowadays one can better educate by lowering our voices and raising our points of arguments.

Research in the field of pedagogy has moved in the same direction. John Dewey and other researchers, who head a movement called advanced education, state that if we want our children to be capable of thinking for themselves, we have to help them to develop their internal controls.

It is not possible to make them act in a determined manner by means of terrorizing them. If we do this, they will always need a totalitarian voice of authority to be able to control them. We have to show them how to live in a constructive manner, to accept the responsibilities they have, not by means of force, but rather with love and understanding, given that learning self-control is a slow process.

Another new and important observation alludes to the fact that behavior is also symbolic and significant. When a child does something that to us seems incomprehensible, we need to understand what he / she wishes to express; that is why it is important to learn to reach out to their personal world to understand and help him / her.

Being parents is a unique learning experience both for the children and their parents; it implies learning to live outside ourselves with generosity to be able to share our fragility, and the grand experience that it is to be human beings.

The Fatherhood Program did it again! The Annual Fishing Trip was a wonderful opportunity for our fathers, mothers and children to spend a beautiful day in the outdoors.

View the photo album by clicking
on the group photo, enjoy!!

If you need information about the
Fatherhood Program and the services
we provide,  please contact
Héctor A Rodríguez, Fatherood Coordinator
at (713)812-0033 Ext. 203”

Dear Daddy...

Dear Daddies: This baby comes with very special instructions, which should be carefully read before you raise him.

Useful Links:

http://www.fatherhood.org/

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