{"id":1631,"date":"2025-03-17T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1631"},"modified":"2025-03-17T19:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:16:30","slug":"transcript-russell-attachment-from-a-fathers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-russell-attachment-from-a-fathers-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Russell &#8211; attachment from a father\u2019s perspective \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to designing activities or thinking about how to engage with fathers, I think it\u2019s really important to consider what attachment means from a dad\u2019s perspective.&nbsp; Because I think traditionally we look at attachment theory through a very maternal lens.&nbsp; It\u2019s all about closeness and security and it\u2019s about kids learning to trust their moms that way.&nbsp; So it\u2019s very maternal I think.&nbsp; But as we\u2019ve been looking over the last few years at how dads interact with kids, what we\u2019re seeing is that men actually engage with their kids through play and through activation and through exploration and problem-solving.&nbsp; It\u2019s just this really somewhat unpredictable interaction between dads and their kids.&nbsp;&nbsp; And so the kids are learning to trust their dads through the context of activation and play.&nbsp; And so what that means for us who work with fathers and families then is that programs for dads I think need to be very activity-focused.&nbsp; There needs to be something that dads are doing with their hands that they\u2019re thinking about planning stuff and being active.&nbsp; It\u2019s play that\u2019s really kind of gross motor kind of stuff because that\u2019s really the context that men feel like a father in a lot of ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to designing activities or thinking about how to engage with fathers, I think it\u2019s really important to consider what attachment means from a dad\u2019s perspective.&nbsp; Because I think traditionally we look at attachment theory through a very maternal lens.&nbsp; It\u2019s all about closeness and security and it\u2019s about kids learning to trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}