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(AP) President Barack Obama is celebrating Father's day a few days early by having an impromptu lunch with two members of the military and two local barbers.
Obama is touting a mentoring initiative aimed at reaching out to fathers with positive parenting advice from barbers and barbershops.
He ate a barbecue lunch of ribs, collard greens and corn bread, telling his Capitol Hill lunch guests that "barbershops are a good place" to share advice on taking responsibility for children.
The Health and Human Services initiative is called "Fatherhood Buzz." It reaches out to dads with positive parenting advice through barbershops.
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juajen
(8,515 posts)bigtree
(86,024 posts). . . he looks to be a man who is gathering together every day and everyone he meets and relishing every moment. I think it's an advantage of his relative youth; the outward optimism and the confident, artless ease with which he relates. He casts a very good portrait of an American man (if that's not too sexist).
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,258 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)bigtree
(86,024 posts)from HHS' fatherhood.gov: http://www.fatherhood.gov/fatherhood-buzz
This Father's Day weekend Barbershops across the country will be participating in Fatherhood Buzz, an initiative to support barbershops in connecting dads with local resources to help build strong families.
This year the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse and the Presidents Fatherhood & Mentoring Initiative are kicking off Fatherhood Buzz, an initiative to support barbershops in connecting dads with local resources to help build strong families. During this inaugural tour, we will be in barbershops in eight cities.
If youre in one of the eight initiative cities you can find a participating barbershop near you. If youre not, take the Buzz to your town. Take your children to the barbershop with you and use the opportunity to talk with the other dads there about their experience and share stories with your children -- a story about the goofiest haircut you ever had, the first time you went to this barbershop, or your memories of their first haircuts.
more: http://www.fatherhood.gov