Yet even as fathers aspire to this more engaged role as parent, it is rare for them to be fully away from the office.
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In addition, as part of the comprehensive child development services it provides, Head Start also provides services to families to support them in the important role of parent, as their child's first teacher.
Recognizing the importance of the role of Parent Teacher Councils, effective use of school development funds, increasing enrollment, reducing dropout, and ensuring quality of teaching, UNESCO in collaboration with Provincial Institute of Teachers Education (PITE) Peshawar, is organizing series of workshops on "Reactivation of Parent Teacher Councils" of Sufaid Dheri and Malkandher Union Councils, and FR- Peshawar area.
She too will probably search within the core of her being for anything she could have done to avoid this, and how to move into a role of single parent.
Stories like the young woman, just 15 years old, who took on the role of a third parent -- helping her brothers and sisters with homework, assisting with meals -- as her mother cared for her wounded father.
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"As a first-time parent, it was so helpful to have role models, moms who had been through it before me, " says Pamela Fierro, the author of "Mommy Rescue Guide: Twins, Triplets, and More" and the mother of twin teenage girls.
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"As a mentor, your role can be coach, pseudo-parent, cheerleader, " Carter said.
He has rarely if ever heard a female acquaintance crack a joke about his role as a stay-at-home parent.
The only thing I'll note of those circumstances is that they lead to encounters of genuine tenderness, humor and complexity, as well as affecting role-reversals in which the child takes care of the parent.
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