84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 3,2001
So
&
o by
Nina Redding
Adams Co.
o Extension Agent
Learning to be a Father
Over the Christmas holidays,
we watched videos of the boys’
first days and years of life. Our
oldest was so surprised that we
gave him his first bath on the
counter by the kitchen sink. He
was so tiny and had such a loud
cry. In the end, it was Daddy
who came to his rescue.
Russell lovingly wiapped baby
Garrison in a warm towel to dry
him and then tried to comb his
hair. Just as Russell was about to
run the comb through Garrison's
hair, he stopped abruptly and telt
his own head to see which side he
parted his own hair! Then with
out hesitation he proceeded to
comb and part Garrison’s hair on
the left also. What a tender mo
ment between father and son to
catch on tape.
How is it that men learn to be
fathers? I asked Russell that
question the other evening. He
told me he built on childhood
memories of his own father and
gut instincts.
He said, “How do people learn
to cook or ride a bike? Ydu keep
trying and practicing.”
Garret D. Evans from the Uni
versity of Florida Cooperative
Extension writes that learning to
be a good father is a very compli-
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cated issue. It takes time and en
ergy, interest and responsibility.
Most of all, it takes your love of
your child.
No two days are the same. Ev
eryday brings new questions and
a new challenge. It often leaves
ourselves asking: “Where do we
learn to be a good father?”
Evans shares that there are
five common ways men learn to
be fathers. The first way is
watching our fathers. If our dad
was involved in raising us as
kids, or even if he wasn't, many
of us will remember and imitate
much of what he did. In many
ways, our fathers are one of the
strongest influences on how we
raise own children. Through our
connections with our dads, we
build a sense of identity for the
family. We may pass on family
traditions, values, and opinions
that continue for generations.
The second way to leant to be
a dad is from television, movies,
and the media. If you’ve watched
any episodes of “Father Knows
Best,” “Crosby”, or “Home Im
provement,” you may have pick
ed up some ideas on how fathers
stay involved in their families. In
30 minutes or less, these fathers
can solve problems that are seri
ous, and perhaps not so serious.
They communicate well with
their children and always seem
to be able to wok it out in the
end.
The third way is what’s the
other guy is doing? Probably one
of the best sources of information
on how to be a father is watching
our friends, brothers, and even
strangers parent their children.
Since we tend to keep company
with people who are generally
similar to us, it makes sense that
we could learn a lot about being
a parent by watching how others
do it. We can see if their strate
gies are successful. We can get
new ideas for how to handle situ
ations. If things don’t work out
so well, we can decide to try a
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different strategy if we’re faced
with the same situation.
The fourth way fathers learn
to be dads is through videos,
magazines, and books. Educa
tional materials such as these are
great sources of factual informa
tion and advice for being a fa
ther. Through these, we learn
from experts who have studied
fathers for years and can give
men many of the “tried and
true” strategies for being an ef
fective father.
The last way mentioned was
through parenting classes. Par
enting classes are often a very
useful tool for learning how to be
an effective father. Folks often go
to parenting classes if they’re
until the 1970 s that European re
searchers found a link between
long-term consumption of erucic
acid and cardiac lesions, a form
of heart disease.
That bit of news spurred on
scientists in Canada who were al
ready trying to breed low-erucic
acid rapeseed for food uses. Can
ada had started growing rape
seed during World War II when
European supplies were cut off.
Breeders analyzed variety after
variety of rapeseed until they
found types with very low
amounts of erucic acids, and they
began a breeding program. By
the late 19705, all Canadian rape
seed produced for food contained
less than 2 percent erucic acid.
By the late 1980 s, the average
amount was 0.6
percent. The Ca
nadian govern-
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having a specific problem with
their child, but many parents
find them valuable even in they
are not having any specific prob
lems. Parenting classes are great
because they get parents together
from various backgrounds to talk
about what works and doesn’t
work for them. They are helpful
for practicing new strategies and
getting advice on specific issues.
The bottom line is that in
order to learn how to be a good
father you just have to do it.
Your interest in learning to be
the best dad that you can be is a
great indicator that you are
going to be just that, a great fa
ther!
ment officially named the new
type of oil “canola,” short for
“Canadian oil.’Tn 1985, the FDA
approved canola oil as “GRAS,”
or generally recognized as safe, as
long as it had an erucic acid con
tent of 2 percent or less. That was
great timing, because it was just
about then that Americans began
paying attention to the saturated
fat content of their foods. The
new canola oil had high levels of
oleic acid, a monounsaturated
fat. Like polyunsaturated fats,
monounsaturated fats are be
lieved to be healthier for -the
heart than saturated fats.
Olive oil and some forms of
sunflower seed and safflower oils
also contain higher amounts of
monounsaturated fats.