PROGRAMS WITH PATTIE 

Pattie Carroll, Extension Dodge County Human Development & Relationships Educator

FOCUS ON FATHERS PARENTING PROGRAM | SPRING 2022

We know that fathers play a critical role in their child’s growth and development. Father involvement is important. For example, the relationship between a father and a child has a deep impact on children’s healthy development in language, thinking, physical, and social–emotional learning.

Involved fathers enhance their children’s communication skills because they tend to ask children questions, which builds vocabulary and conversational skills. Positive father involvement includes direct interaction with children, including caregiving and shared activities.

The program is intended for fathers of children between 0-12, but all fathers and father figures are welcome to attend.

• APRIL 21 | STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF
• APRIL 28 | ROCK STAR, SPORTS STAR, SUPER STAR?
• MAY 5 | TAKE A DEEP BREATH
• MAY 12 | CHANGING THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD

Sessions will be held on Thursday evenings via zoom, and will run from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm. We hope you join us!

Call the Extension Dodge County for more information at (920)386-3790.

PATTIE’S PARENTING TIPS

Pattie’s Parenting Tips is a new social media/web outreach for the families of Dodge County.  Look for regular posts from UW Madison Division of Extension-Dodge County Human Development & Relationships Educator, Pattie Carroll.

• Growing & Learning During the Holiday Season
• College Aged Kids & Stress
• Back to School during COVID & Establishing Family Routines
• Families and Screens
• Dealing with Increased Stress
• Make the Most of Summer
• Dads
• Books Can Help Families Engage in Difficult Conversations
• Memorializing the 2020 Global Pandemic as a Family
• Cooking With Kids
• Mindfulness
• Earth Day 2020: Plant Something as a Family

EMAIL PARENTING NEWSLETTERS

UW-Extension free, electronic, age-paced newsletters, including Spanish language editions. View at: http://parenting.extension.wisc.edu/

• • Preparing to Parent
  • Parenting the First Year
  • Parenting the Second and Third Years
  • Parenting Future Readers
  • Parenting Your Unique Child
  • Parenting the Preschooler

OTHER RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

• Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development:  http://www.childtrends.org/
• Learn Math Everyday Fun Games (PDF, 4 pages, 324 KB)
• Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Wisconsin’s Regulated Child Care Search:  http://dcf.wisconsin.gov/childcare/licensed/search.htm