PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Providing financial support
- Emotional guidance and support
- Disciplining and setting boundaries
- Role-modeling values and behavior
- Protecting and ensuring family safety
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT:
- Listening and validating feelings
- Offering comfort and reassurance
- Encouraging open communication
- Supporting partner’s emotional needs
- Modeling healthy emotional expression
DISCIPLINE AND GUIDANCE:
- Setting clear expectations and rules
- Teaching life skills and values
- Encouraging responsibility and independence
- Modeling respectful communication
- Providing constructive feedback
FINANCIAL PROVISION:
- Managing household finances
- Providing for family’s basic needs
- Planning for future financial security
- Saving for children’s education
- Ensuring family’s economic stability
ROLE-MODELING:
- Demonstrating integrity and honesty
- Modeling respectful relationships
- Teaching respect for authority
- Encouraging physical and mental well-being
- Embodying values and principles
PARENTING PARTNERSHIP:
- Co-parenting with mother
- Sharing childcare responsibilities
- Collaborating on discipline and guidance
- Supporting partner’s parenting style
- Maintaining united front in parenting
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
- Participating in children’s activities
- Volunteering in community or school
- Building relationships with neighbors
- Role-modeling social responsibility
- Fostering community connections
PERSONAL GROWTH:
- Pursuing personal interests and hobbies
- Continuing education and self-improvement
- Maintaining physical and mental health
- Setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care
- Seeking support and resources when needed
INFLUENCING CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT:
- Shaping moral and ethical values
- Encouraging educational and career goals
- Modeling healthy relationships
- Teaching life skills and independence
- Fostering emotional intelligence.