The Fathering Project

Weekly Dad Tips 

Last week was National Families Week, a time to celebrate the importance of families and their values in our communities. Family values form the foundation for children to understand right from wrong and make independent, good decisions when you are not there to guide them.

Your family values define what you, as a family, think is important - what is good and how you want to live.​​​​​​ These values may differ from one family to the next, however, there are some fundamental core values that tend to match within societies’ values, such as love, kindness, trust, honesty, respect, generosity, courtesy, fairness, and knowing right and wrong.

To celebrate National Families Week, we encourage you to establish your family values. Here are some tips that can help you get started.

​​​​​​Top Tips

1. Establish your own values. ​​​​​Identify what you see as the most important values for you and your family at this time – discuss these with your partner if you have one.​​​​​

2. Write a list. This will help to keep you and the family accountable.

3. Embed them. Discuss how you could start to do these things more around the home. For example, kindness – offering to help each other, being polite, etc. 

Dad joke of the week

"There was a Roman emperor who never aged after he turned 19. His name was constant teen....."

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