STRONGSTART™ FOR NEW DADS

Are you ready to dad?

Learn proven tactics to build confidence, baby-proof your relationship, and build a lifetime of mental wellness for your child.

✓ Understand Child Development

✓ Babyproof your relationship

✓ Connect with other new dads

Enroll in StrongStart for New Dads™

"When it comes to a new mom's mental health, a supportive, engaged partner is absolutely the best medicine."

Nataly Petrovic, Director of UCLA Maternal Outpatient Mental Health Services (MOMS) Clinic
"I truly believe the world would be a better place if every new dad did StrongStart"

Nicole P.
"[StrongStart] was an incredible resource during pregnancy and after."

Daniel E.

StrongStart™ Benefits for New Dads

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Build your child’s mental wealth during the critical first three years

Understand your vital role in building the thinking, feeling, and people skills that lead to success in school, at work, and in relationships.

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Join the brotherhood of fatherhood

Connect with other new dads to share challenges and triumphs. Research shows prenatal paternal preparation benefits dads, babies, and moms.

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Become a stabilizing presence

Model a sense of confidence and calm that will help shape your child’s mental health for the rest of their life.

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Steer clear of common conflicts

Your relationship is your child’s environment. Model healthy behavior and stay on the same team even when it’s 3 am, the baby’s crying, and you’re deciding where to spend Thanksgiving.

Enroll in StrongStart™

What you’ll learn

Dads specialize in introducing their children to the outside world.

The way dads play and introduce risk, stretch language and coach emotions helps build core social and emotional learning skills that develop in the first three years.

While there is no “quick start guide” for parents, there are things dad can do right now to look beyond “birth partnering” and prepare for his role on The Parenting Team.

In Strong Start for New Dads™, dads get information, “hacks,” and helpful tips to help him get ready for his role— and the special fun he’s going to have. He’ll learn:

The science of Patrescence! The very real chemical, mental, and emotional changes that men undergo as they become dads.
Babyproofing the relationship! Parenting is a team sport - and it’s tough on relationships. He’ll learn simple communication habits and get a take-home program to help keep the team together - even when it’s 3 a.m and the baby’s screaming and you still can’t agree on where to spend the holidays.
Secrets to Protecting the Quarterback! Systems to put in place before the baby comes to help him enjoy the game - and protect the quarterback.

There’s no owners manual— but there is a playbook.

Your StrongStart™ Instructor

Founder & Executive Director of Early Engagement
After years in the corporate world, Ben’s life changed when he studied respectful parenting before the birth of his daughter. The question that emerged: “why doesn’t every new dad to learn this stuff?”
With 200 hours of training under RIE Associate® Elizabeth Memel, Ben’s dedicated the past two decades to activating the latent power of dads to raise healthier and more resilient kids.
Early Engagement’s programs have been distilled from decades of practice in respectful parenting, and through collaboration with luminaries across early childhood development, public health, and the collective wisdom of dads.