Urbanska-Bulas M., Pasternak A. I want to be like my father! The role of fathers in the upbringing of preschool children

Urbanska-Bulas M., Pasternak A. I want to be like my father! The role of fathers in the upbringing of preschool children // Preschool Education Today. 2012, Issue 3 - p. 91–93.

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2012, 3

Monika Urbanska-Bulas
Graduate of the Pedagogical Institute of Advanced Training in Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Poland)

Agnieszka Pasternak
Psychologist in specialized psycho-educational clinic in Skawina, organizer of systemic and psychodynamic courses at the Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Skawina, Krakow, Poland)

Abstract

The role of fathers in raising preschool children is closely connected with the features that a man performs in the family – a husband and a father. In the modern family distribution of roles and responsibilities between spouses often depends on the conditions and restrictions set by their occupation. The role of women and men in the family is a subject to change. However, not all the features of men in the family amenable to social and cultural change. The article describes the functions performed by a father in the spiritual-philosophical aspect and in the psychological aspect. The article shows that the father’s love is not the same as the mother’s which is absolutely unconditional. Erich Fromm pointed out that to earn the love of a father, her child must meet certain conditions, be responsible, hard working, courageous, which in future will help her to overcome life’s difficulties. Particular attention in the article is paid to situations where a child grows up without a father.