Tips for Single dads

Fathers play a particularly important role in the development of children’s openness to the world. Men seem to have a tendency to excite, surprise, and momentarily destabilize children; they also tend to encourage children to take risks, while at the same time ensuring the latter’s safety and security, thus pertaining children to learn to be braver in situations, as well as to stand up for themselves. Fathers make definite contributions to infant development. Fathers, like mothers, are the pillars in the development of a child’s emotional well-being. Father’s affection and support greatly affect a child’s cognitive and social development.

Parenting is hard, and everyone takes a different approach. Nowadays the number of children residing in single-father families is increasing day by day. A single father with a newborn faces difficulty in raising them. And there are many good and bad effects of being raised by a single father. It's a tough job for a single father to raise a child, but the love for their children helps them keep going.

Some of the issues that affect single parents are:

Difficulty juggling personal and work-related responsibilities
Struggles with co-parenting or step parenting
Stress due to financial demands
Visitation and custody problems
Complications and extended family relationships, etc

There are many challenges of being a single father, but as every disease has a cure, likewise there are a few tips for single dads that will help them in parenting. The tips include:

1. They should maintain a suitable work schedule
2. Maintain a balance  between family and work
3. They should act calmly in challenging situations
4. Keep away relationship problems from your child
5. Give time to your children
6. Make your children know that you love them
7. Show care to your children
8. Maintain a regular visit to the school of your child
9. Go on vacations and trips
10.Talk to your children
11. Share your thoughts with your children
12. Give sufficient importance to your child’s feelings
13. Teach them good things 
14. Clarify everything, etc