Fathers Reading Every Day is a really simple programme that encourages dads to read with their children at home.
Bringing Fathers In is a series of smart, punchy, evidence-based information sheets backed up with a series of online research summaries.
Huge thanks to our key supporters – we’re over half way to our £5,000 FRED crowdfunding target.
We have 6 days left to hit the target.
Reading a bedtime story with dad – a magical, powerful ritual, which also brings huge benefits to children’s education and wellbeing: their language and literacy, their behaviour, their self-confidence, and their relationships with their dads.
A parliamentary inquiry into parenting and social mobility has called on the next government to do more to encourage the UK’s early years services to engage with men – and to fund a national reading campaign for dads and children.
Primary school children who took part with their fathers in a simple literacy intervention promoted by the Fatherhood Institute, have been shown to have made better progress at reading, writing and numeracy.