Here are seven great ideas to help dads form a closer relationship with their kids:-

1. Find something you have in common with your kids: Dads will relate a lot better with their kids if there is a shared interest. This can sometimes be tricky, as most men tend to relate better when being active and tend to teach through games. If sport is not something you have an interest in, than you need to find something that your child enjoys doing, and take an active interest in that. For example, Let your child involve you in their hobbies or sporting activities.

2. Spend quality time with your sons: From the age of five, a boy thinks their dad is much like Superman or their favorite superhero, and tends to give their mother a much harder time at this stage. Dads need to find the time to spend as much time with their sons as possible in these years, and not make each game a lesson or push them too hard.

3. Share the discipline: Dads are traditionally the ones that get to do all the fun play but they also tend to miss out when it comes to disciplining their children. Some dads are great at getting their kids excited before bedtime, and then expect their partner to settle them down. Both parents should take a more active part in disciplining their children’s behavior as it’s not only the mother’s role.

4. Treat your daughters with respect: Daughters that have strong links with their dads tend to have a much healthier outlook. Dads should teach their daughters about how they should be treated by males and they should also treat their daughters with respect, so they learn to expect this in their future relationships with men.

5. Learning to let go of your Superman persona: Most teenage boys will be programmed to challenge their dads, and its all part of their development and growing up phase. Most sons will take great pleasure in verbal jousting matches with their dads, where they delight in proving their dads fallibility. Dads at this stage need to maintain a sense of humour and a willingness to stand back and allow other male mentors to come into their son’s life.

6. Be supportive of your partner: Many dads play an important and integral part in their children’s lives, as well as a profound effect on the mothering that their children receive. A mother that can share the emotional and financial burdens of raising children with a supportive and understanding partner is more likely to be a loving and much stronger mother.

7. Adapt as your child changes: One day they’re children, and the next they’re teenagers. The most effective dads are those that can change their parenting style to suit their child’s developmental and growing stages. Fathers who lack confidence in their parenting skills, especially as their children become older should seek parenting advice and also become more involved in as many aspects of parenting as they can, as this allows them to actually learn through ongoing parenting.

1) Father is a guide, teacher and can do no wrong.
As a little girl now growing up, she does not know any better and needs her father’s guidance to show her the right way of how to behave for he knows better, he has lived longer and has seen and dealt with many problems in his life.

2) Father is first love
His daughter does not know any other male so close to her, for she places all her trust in her father, he is her fist love and that has an impact on her of how she will view other men and who she will allow closes to her in her future life as love relationship.

3) Father respecting his limits
As a new father, you will need to know your limits and you can teach this to your daughter so she will not attract others in her life that will verbally and physically abuse her.

4) Father supporting his daughter
A father taking the time out to spend with his daughter in going to the park, shopping and helping her with her homework builds a support and a feeling of confidence in her for she also learning stability.

The ability for a father to support his daughter in what she wants to do is a sign that he is trusting in her and what he and his wife has taught her.

5) Father showing how he deals with family problems
When a father is involved in the family relationship and his daughter see how her parents deals with problems such as compromising listening, sharing, trusting, appreciating, this gives her a good images of a relationship and help build a stronger self esteem.

6) Father making rules
When the father and mother has agreed to the rules in how they are going to raise their daughter and are not question or disagreed with each other in front of their daughter it helps the child feel secure and harmony in the home.

7) Father and daughter building communication
The father and daughter may have disagreements as she is growing up because this helps her find her identity, when the foundation of love, support and mutual respect is build it is easier to come back together.

It is normal to have disagreements between father and daughter for this helps both individual to share their point of view and know that they are heard and respected even if one of them disagrees with the other for the ability to not take it personal and to be able to talk after is the test of a strong relationship.

You Become less of a Daredevil: Where you once didn’t hesitate to go skydiving or extreme snowboarding with a why-not?! attitude, you now know fear and think to yourself, “what are this little baby and my wife going to do if I break my neck doing these stupid stunts?”

You Respect your Wife and Love her in a New Way: She waddled for nine month carrying your baby and then you watched her give birth. As you see her nurturing your little tyke, you realize that you are darned lucky to have this woman around to help you raise this little human being. She’s a rock star and you know you couldn’t do this without her.

You Are More Protective than a Mother Bear: Let no other human or furry beast look at your child askew because you will throw yourself across a mall aisle to save your baby. You will silently curse a teacher for not appreciating your son’s penchant for jumping during math class and will pounce on anyone bold enough to make your little girl cry.

Yes, Virginia, there Really is a Santa Claus: Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny come back to life for you as you desperately want your child to believe in the same fanciful things you did as a kid. You experience a great rebirth in fairy tales, and you get a real charge over telling your kids stories that thrill them. You even read them the same books your parents read you.

You’re a God and Expert: If you’ve done even an average job at being a dad, your kids idolize you without hesitation. You walk into the house after a day at work and they fling themselves into your arms as if they haven’t seen you in a month. They also think you are an astronomer (Dad, why are the stars are so shiny?); a physicist (Daddy, why did that liquid explode like that?); a veterinarian (Pop, I don’t know why my goldfish has been sleeping all night!) and a plumber (Dad, I accidentally dropped my Lego into the potty and now all the water is coming downstairs). They think you know it all and can fix it all.

Cartoons Become Intellectual Brain Candy: You laugh out loud at Peep and the Big Wide World, and think that Quack is the ultimate comic genius. You memorize the words for all the opening songs of your child’s favorite toons no matter how goofy they are, and you’ll sing them when you’re driving your kid to school at 7 am (and sometimes even after you’ve dropped them off).

You Finally Appreciate Your Parents: Now you realize what you put your parents through when you fell off a swing and broke your arm, came home an hour late for curfew, brought home that nutty girlfriend with blue hair, wrecked the family car (twice!), and didn’t become a doctor after they paid for pre-med college courses for two years. Even after all that, they still love you and adore your children.

The little boy growing up without a dad is a little different. Boys need someone to teach them to be a man. They need someone to show them how to provide for themselves and one day a family. They need someone to show them how to fix things and to use their strength for good. Boys who do not have a positive male role model have a higher chance at falling into the street life. They fall into a gang or a group of kids who do drugs and party. They are focused on providing in a negative way instead of doing something great to help make the world a better place. The boy will more than likely grow up to disrespect women. He will have a lot of anger and resentment with an “I don’t care” attitude about life.

A lot of people reading this may be thinking they know a child who needs a positive male role model. The child may not have a dad and the mom is working hard to provide and trying to do both roles. The world should come together to help these children by guiding them and helping them to become good people. Some day these children will be in charge of the world. Hopefully they will be a good influence and give or invent things that can move everyone’s lives in a positive direction. However, without the proper guidance the lives of fatherless children might just perpetuate more unhappiness.