‘Cause Daddy/Kitten Time is good for her!
The more effort a father invests in his children, the smarter they are as kids and more successful as adults, new research shows. And highly educated fathers make even more of a difference than less educated dads, all things being equal.
“It’s not [just] about having dad around, it’s about what kind of dad he is,” says Daniel Nettle, a psychologist at the University of Newcastle, UK, who led the new analysis, based on surveys of more than 10,000 children over half a century.
[…] At age 11, children of highly involved fathers boasted markedly higher IQs than children with less present dads. “This is not half a point, this is a few points of IQ, on average,” he says.
Another thing I can take credit for in our daughter’s general wonderfulness.