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How do you, as a Stay-at-home Dad, empower your son to be compassionate and self-confident?
GetConnectDad and The Good Men Project want to know how you are raising your boys.
Parenting and family issues always have been a crucial area of focus for good men and women internationally. As parents, we can teach and empower each other, comfort and uplift each other through challenges, and celebrate each others’ milestones and joys! Participatory media including this website allow more people to be part of the conversation.
We are pleased to announce a new collaborative effort by and between GetConnectDad.com and GoodMenProject.com.
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What is GetConnectDAD?
GetConnectDAD is a group of parents from around the world who are committed to becoming more connected to their children through a simple message: More quality time as a family results in more connected kids.
What started off as a simple writing exercise has grown into an international team who are writing on a simple series: “52 Traits We Want In Our Kids.” Each week our parents answer the question, “What do I want my child to learn from me this week?” By adopting 5 Habits, they are striving to create a more connectDAD family. These habits are:
1) Devote 1 extra hour solely focused on your children this week.
2) Read a story or have a story read to you by your children this week.
3) Take a walk OUTSIDE with your family this week.
4) Take 1 moment to say ‘I love you’ to each of your kids this week.
5) Take 1 moment to hug your child this week.
150 Authors, 15 Countries, Writing on 52 Traits We Want In Our Kids
Each week, parents from around the world are writing on a specific topic as part of a year’s worth of introspection on some key traits we want to consider for our kids. (Click to see our list of 52 Traits.)
We understand that no one can focus on 52 unique traits; however, we hope that parents are able to think about each of these ‘traits’ as they are introduced and consider what they are doing to introduce components to their kids.
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The Good Men Project is the only international conversation about the changing roles of men in the 21st century.
An excerpt from our About page: “The Good Men Project is a glimpse of what enlightened masculinity might look like in the 21st century,” the press raved when we launched. We had set out to start an international conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. And with over 5 million visitors coming to join in every month, it looks as if we’ve done exactly that.
TheGood Men Project was founded by Tom Matlack in 2009. Tom set out to collect men’s stories about the defining moments in men’s lives. What he discovered was that the connected idea between all the stories of the men that Tom talked to was that there was a moment when each man “woke up, looked in the mirror and said ‘I thought I knew what it meant to be a man. I thought I knew what it meant to be good. And I realize that I don’t know either.’”These are the types of stories about men that “change the writer and change the reader.”
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Our two organizations are partnering together on this Call For Submissions because our missions overlap and because we want to extend our respective conversations further. Each week, both sites will post the same joint call for submissions based on the intersection of GetConnectDad’s 52 Traits and GoodMenProject’s exploration of 21st-century masculinity.
Each week, parents from around the world are writing on a specific topic as part of a year’s worth of introspection on some key traits we want to consider for our kids.
Our writers answer the question, “What do you do to teach your kids about Empowerment, Generosity, etc?”
We understand that no one can focus on 52 unique traits; however, we hope that parents are able to think about each of these ‘traits’ as they are introduced and consider what they are doing to introduce components to their kids.
If you are a parent of young children and want to share your story, we would love to hear from you.
Submissions accepted will run in both online publications.
To submit to The Good Men Project, please submit here. If you have not previously submitted to The Good Men Project, please be sure to name Lisa M. Blacker as your preferred editor on the submission form. If you have an established editor at GMP, please be sure to name that person. Also be sure to indicate that the post is a GetConnectDad-GoodMenProject Call for Submission or “GCD-GMP Joint CFS”
To submit to GetConnectDad, please submit here . Please be sure to indicate that the post is a GetConnectDad-GoodMenProject Call for Submission or “GCD-GMP Joint CFS”
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Any Questions?
Feel free to send us an email:
Lisa.M.Blacker(at)gmail.com (Good Men Project)
JulianCaldwell(at)gmail.com (GetConnectDad )
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Join the conversation at The Good Men Project. Here’s how:
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Here are more ways to become a part of The Good Men Project community:
Request to join our private Facebook Group for Writers—it’s like our virtual newsroom where you connect with editors and other writers about issues and ideas.
Click here to become a Premium Member of The Good Men Project Community. 1) Get access to an exclusive “Members Only” Group on Facebook, 2) View the website with no ads 3) Get free access to classes, workshops, and exclusive events 4) Be invited to an exclusive weekly “Call with the Publisher” with other Premium Members 4) Free commenting badge, listing on our Friends page, and more.
Are you stuck on what to write? Sign up for our Writing Prompts emails, you’ll get ideas directly from our editors every Monday and Thursday.
Join our exclusive weekly “Call with the Publisher” — where community members are encouraged to discuss the issues of the week, get story ideas, meet other members and get known for their ideas? To get the call-in information, either join as a member or wait until you get a post published with us. Here are some examples of what we talk about on the calls.
Want to learn practical skills about how to be a better Writer, Editor or Platform Builder? Want to be a Rising Star in Media? Want to learn how to Create Social Change? We have classes in all of those areas. Classes are included free of charge with our $20 a year Gold Membership.
However you engage with The Good Men Project—you can help lead this conversation about the changing roles of men in the 21st century.
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