STRONGSTART™ FOR EXPECTING DADS
Are you ready to dad?
Learn proven tactics to build confidence, baby-proof your relationship, and build a lifetime of mental wellness for your child.
✓ Understand Child Development
✓ Babyproof your relationship
✓ Connect with other new dads
StrongStart™ Benefits for New Dads
Build your child’s mental wealth during the critical first three years
Understand your vital role in building the thinking, feeling, and people skills that lead to success in school, at work, and in relationships.
Join the brotherhood of fatherhood
Connect with other new dads to share challenges and triumphs. Research shows prenatal paternal preparation benefits dads, babies, and moms.
Become a stabilizing presence
Model a sense of confidence and calm that will help shape your child’s mental health for the rest of their life.
Steer clear of common conflicts
Your relationship is your child’s environment. Model healthy behavior and stay on the same team even when it’s 3 am, the baby’s crying, and you’re deciding where to spend Thanksgiving.
What you’ll learn
Dads bring something different to the table—and a growing body of research shows just how much that difference matters.
Dads specialize in introducing their children to the outside world. The way dads play and introduce risk, the way they stretch language and coach emotions, helps build core social and emotional skills children need–especially during the critical 0–3 learning window.
While there may be “no quick start guide” for parents, there are things that dad can do right now to look beyond “birth partnering” and prepare for his role on The Parenting Team.
In Strong Start for New Dads™, dads get information, “hacks,” and helpful tips to help him get ready for his role - and the special fun he’s going to have. He’ll learn:
The science of Patrescence! The very real chemical, mental, and emotional changes that men undergo as they become dads.
Babyproofing the relationship! Parenting is a team sport - and it’s tough on relationships. He’ll learn simple communication habits and get a take-home program to help keep the team together - even when it’s 3 a.m and the baby’s screaming and you still can’t agree on where to spend the holidays.
Secrets to self-care for dads. Systems to put in place before the baby comes to help him enjoy the game - and protect the quarterback.
There may not be an owner’s manual, but there is a playbook!
Your StrongStart™ Instructor
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Founder & Executive Director of Early Engagement
After years in the corporate world, Ben’s life changed when he studied respect-based parenting before the birth of his daughter. The question that emerged: “why isn’t it the norm for every new dad to learn this stuff?”
With 200 hours of training under RIE Associate® Elizabeth Memel, Ben has dedicated his life to activating the latent power of fathers to raise healthier and more resilient kids. Early Engagement courses have been distilled from decades of practice in respect-based parenting, collaboration with luminaries across early childhood development and public health, and the collective wisdom of a community of dads.
