A child\u2019s understanding of gender equality begins in the home. This Father\u2019s Day we want to eliminate gender roles at home by smashing the stereotype of the hopeless dad in the kitchen. We know not all dads are experts at cooking, but all dads care about providing their children with a healthy start to life. Cooking with your children and sharing meal times is an important step in shaping their understanding of healthy eating and living. When you eliminate gender roles at home, children are empowered to reach their full potential.<\/p>\n
To help get a better understanding of how modern-day dads feel around these issues, Plan International commissioned an independent survey. Polling 500 dads in every major city in Australia, the IPSOS delivered survey questioned dad\u2019s role in the modern Australian home. The findings are extremely positive and indicate the stereotype of hopeless dad is increasingly dispelled. The overall results strongly point towards modern Aussie dads as capable and engaged parents.<\/p>\n
Almost all (99%) the dads surveyed say they have an important role to play teaching children how to eat healthily, with 87% enjoying cooking with their kids as a bonding activity. Dads are also in favour of equality: almost all (97%) agree dads must play an equal role in parenting and 97% say they care about teaching children to respect all genders equally.<\/p>\n
Three-quarters of fathers surveyed (77%) said they were fed up with the \u2018dumb dad\u2019 stereotype and agree that the advertising stereotype was damaging to fathers who work hard to raise healthy, happy kids.<\/p>\n
Dads listed playing with their children as the most important shared activity, followed by reading, sport, cooking, music and art. When it came to who cooks at home, the results were down to the wire, with 34% saying they do most of the cooking, 35% saying their partner cooks most and 31% agreeing it was equally shared.<\/p>\n
Our Whole Kids co-founder James Meldrum \u2013 who is a father of two \u2013 says the \u2018hopeless dad\u2019 stereotype is totally out of kilter with modern day parenting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Father\u2019s Day it\u2019s really important to celebrate dads that recognise their contribution to families, the idea of hopeless dads is no longer relevant. Dads come in all shapes and sizes and the role of dads is often undervalued, they\u2019re a real critical part of a child\u2019s development. The role of a father in modern life has changed a lot since the 1950s and we need to recognise that dads are far more involved and want to be even more involved in a child\u2019s development.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whole Kids and Plan International have worked in partnership for the last 6 months with their shared vision to make the world a happier and healthier place for kids.<\/em><\/p>\n A child\u2019s understanding of gender equality begins in the home. This Father\u2019s Day we want to eliminate gender roles at home by smashing the stereotype of the hopeless dad in the kitchen. We know not all dads are experts at cooking, but all dads care about providing their children with a healthy start to life….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/custom-post-st.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"