Discover the essential habits for building the confident father you want to be and your children need you to be. This practical guide provides the tools every father needs to customize the habits for maximum impact.
For Fathers
For Professionals Supporting Fathers
Today's fathers place more importance than ever on their fathering role, but many of them struggle to find their footing, feeling uncertain about how to fulfill a role that's so crucial for them, their children, and their families. They lack a roadmap for building the confidence they want and need in their ability to be a great father.
This book bridges that gap by providing fathers with a roadmap of 12 powerful, complementary habits that fathers from all walks of life can leverage in fulfilling the role of a lifetime. Furthermore, this book acknowledges that every father is unique, helping him apply and customize the habits for maximum impact.
Essential Habits
Pages of Wisdom
of Fathers Helped
Work with others to hold yourself accountable for following through on your fathering goals.
Reflecting regularly on your fathering keeps what matters most to you front and center.
Caring for your physical health is crucial to being there for your children in the long run.
Caring for your mental health is crucial for addressing the fathering challenges you'll encounter.
Develop and maintain the skills for the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual involvement your children need.
Be the role model of healthy masculinity your children, family, and community need.
Show that you embrace the nurturing role that helps create the environment in which your children will thrive.
Use the discipline style and tactics that will guide your children toward proper behavior and away from improper behavior.
Effective communication is central to developing healthy relationships with your children and anyone helping raise them.
Create and maintain the quality relationship with your spouse, partner, or ex that your children need.
Give back by sharing fathering lessons. Seek opportunities to mentor fathers, one father and family at a time.
Participate in your community's civic life to help create a strong, healthy environment for other fathers, children, and families.
Christopher A. Brown is the President of National Fatherhood Initiative®, the nation’s leading organization equipping communities to strengthen the vital bond between fathers and their children. An anthropologist, husband, father, and grandfather, Christopher brings more than three decades of experience helping transform the lives of fathers, mothers, and families across the United States and beyond.
A nationally recognized leader in the fatherhood field, Christopher designed the country’s most widely used evidence-based and research-informed fathering programs and has trained thousands of practitioners serving fathers. His insights have guided federal and state fatherhood initiatives, and he has been a trusted advisor on multiple national policy committees.
Christopher’s work and commentary have been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and Fox News, and his influence extends globally—consulting with organizations on six continents to help launch and strengthen fatherhood initiatives worldwide.
Your children deserve a confident, present father.
Take the first step toward becoming the father you've always wanted to be.
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