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your child to work with you.
Create
a dads group at work and get together informally for
coffee or lunch as dads and after work with your
children.
Look into flexible
scheduling, aka flex-time.
Get your boss or the CEO
of the business to endorse a father-friendly workplace.
Insist on rewards based on
performance not "face time."
Take paternity leave when
a child is born or when you have an adoption.
Create daily rituals for
staying connected with your spouse and children.
Be spontaneous, call home
during the day.
Reconnect when you get
home from work by getting involved at you child's level.
Send a fax, e-mail, post
card, letter or special greeting to your family when
you're out of town.
Create a travel
quiz of important learning opportunities tied to
the destination of an out-of-town trip.
Do not allow the
telephone or a beeper to interrupt family time.
Call back or respond on your schedule.
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