This week I continue to research the website www.zerotothree.com. This website offers parents, professionals and others with information on the development and health of infants, babies and toddlers. This week, I found two sections of the website that are relevant to my current professional development and these sections are: Safe Babies Court Teams: Building Strong Families and Healthy Communities and Brain Development. The Safe Babies section discusses how children are negatively affected once they have been removed from their parents/caregiver's homes and placed in foster care and how the developing of court teams helps these children. The court teams educate and train others on the negative impacts of child abuse and neglect on children and ways to prevent such abuse.
One subject on the website that piqued my interest was learning of the father's role in a child's life. In a podcast interview with Kyle Pruett, M.D. a discussion of how the role of the father is changing over the years. For instance, men are becoming more active and involved in child development and in the lives of their children. Dr. Pruett further speaks of the current expectations of the father "will be a co-parent" than fathers were forty years ago. He also speaks of how it is beneficial of children to have both parents be an active part of the lives of their children as: the mother is the nuturer and the father is the parent that to have fun with. The roles of fathers are vital to their children and this podcast allows me to educate both mothers and fathers on their roles with their children. This topic I found most interesting as most households are headed by single females and fathers are not active in the lives of their children. I hope to gain more information on this topic in the future as I continue my journey into being an early childhood professional.
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