Today, I want to talk about a programme in the United States, which is referred to as Dads on Duty. The programme started when some parents got the idea from a story in Louisiana where in the beginning of a school year, there was chaos and discipline issues that resulted in suspensions. When the dads started working in the school by volunteering to welcome the students in the beginning of the day by giving them inspiration, standing in the hallways and assuring them of security, the indiscipline cases declined remarkably.
This helps them achieve their goal by being a support system for kids. Since it is dads, it gives a positive male influence (mentoring), especially to the kids who are from single mother families or families where the dads don’t participate a lot in the upbringing of their children.