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Dr. Kyle Pruett is an international authority on many aspects of child and parent development, including fatherhood and its effects on children. His latest book, Partnership Parenting, examines the different parenting styles of men and women. While mothers tend to overprotect their kids, fathers tend to push them toward independence. Many experts advocate “a united front,” but Pruett argues that Mom and Dad not always being on the exact same page can actually strengthen the whole family. With wisdom and humor, Partnership Parenting helps couples take advantage of their individual strengths to raise confident children while simultaneously improving their marriage.
Pruett believes that sharing everyday moments early in life are important for everyone— Mom, Dad, and Baby. Simple, day-to-day interactions boost a new dad’s confidence in himself and his spouse’s confidence in him as a caregiver. A father’s participation strengthens the spousal relationship: women speak of their spouses as being more “attractive” when they see them as confident, nurturing fathers. Pruett describes how babies as well as teenagers benefit directly from the father’s presence. His pioneering, long-term study—first published in the now classic The Nurturing Father (the American Health Book Award) and recently in Pediatrics—found additional strength in children whose fathers were actively involved in their lives.
Pruett was a consultant to Vice President Al Gore for the White House Conference on “Men in Children’s Lives” and served as president of Zero to Three (The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and their Families) in Washington, DC. He sat on the advisory board for Father Involvement in Head Start and is the head of the International Study Group on Fathers and Child Development.
Pruett also authored Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child and hosted his own Lifetime Cable series, Your Child Six to Twelve with Dr. Kyle Pruett. He has been a columnist on WebMD, MSN.com, parentsedge.com, and contributing editor to Good Housekeeping and Child and Parents magazines. A consultant for CBS Morning News, he has also appeared regularly on Good Morning America, 20/20, CBS This Morning, and NPR. Pruett was chosen by Oprah Winfrey to co-host her acclaimed Begin with Love video, distributed to the parents of every newborn child in America in 2008.
Pruett was educated at Yale University and Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and maintains a private practice in infant, child, adolescent, and family psychiatry.
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