Our parenting classes help new fathers and dads-to-be in San Diego feel more confident about being a dad even if you've never held a baby in your life!
We offer San Diego based, two-session parenting classes for expectant fathers and dads with babies up to one year of age. Click on each class to get more information:
- Expectant Father Class - For expectant dads-to-be
- First Year Class- For dads with babies up to one year old
Becoming a father is a life changing event. New dads experience excitement and face many - often unanticipated - new challenges. Most books, workshops and support groups are geared toward the needs and perspectives of a new mother, so fathers of newborns and toddlers are usually left to navigate this territory without much specific guidance or support.
Basic Training for New Dads (BTND) is a San Diego-based class for expectant and new fathers in which the teachers are fathers with their newborn children. BTND is two separate “guy-friendly” classes, each targeting the different questions that dads-to-be and new dads tend to have. The classes are “dads-only,” and dads can choose to take part in one or both classes.
Dads can speed up the learning curve by comparing notes with other new fathers and asking questions of the facilitator – a trained therapist who specializes in men’s issues and who has young children. The classes covers specific, hands-on skills like changing a diapers and soothing an infant, as well as guidance for handling some of the less tangible issues such as changing roles, new relationship dynamics, work/family balance and the wide range of challenges a new dad experiences. If you’re a new dad looking for some “brass tacks” pointers from other dads, BTND is for you.
