Summary
This 4-part program features ex-offenders offering insights and advice on fatherhood. They discuss how they learned their parenting skills, how they handled being incarcerated and separated from their children, and how they approached their reunion with their children. They also talk about their plans for the future and conclude with thoughts about what it takes to be a successful parent. The program features Randy Scott, parenting teacher at the New Lisbon Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
Contents
[Disc] 1. Learning to be a Dad. Participants discuss their current relationship with their children, their own childhood, as well as the sources from which they learned parenting skills.
[Disc] 2. Separation. The ex-offender Dads reveal the frustrations of being incarcerated and separated from their children. They discuss their relationships with their children and the caregivers of their children during incarceration.
[Disc] 3. Reunion. Participants discuss how they re-established trust between themselves and their children when they were reunited. They also discuss how they handled questions about their past. Finally, they discuss how they began again to provide for their children.
[Disc] 4. Where do we go from here? These Dads have plans for their futures and their children's futures. They talk about how they plan to continue to learn parenting skills, and what it takes to be a successful Dad.