Do practitioners in your setting directly engage with fathers and encourage them to regularly play with their children? The importance of dads drawing, telling stories and singing with their young children has been highlighted by a new report, which found it can bring an educational advantage once they start school.
According to the research, led by the University of Leeds, these frequent, fun interactions between dads and three-year-olds – even for just ten minutes a day – can help children to do better at primary school by age five. Dads being involved at age five also helped improve scores in seven-year-olds’ Key Stage Assessments.
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