Kristopher Kaliebe founded Father's Little Helper to question some of the commonly held beliefs pertaining to mental health, gender, fathers, children and parenting.
Mental health and parenting perspectives should be intellectually coherent and supportive to fathers. I've taken the time to find some (they do exist).
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN DAD LOVES HIS ROLE AS FATHER, LOVES HIS KIDS AND IS BUSTING HIS A** TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY'S EMOTIONAL, FINANCIAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
MOST DADS DO A GREAT JOB AND DESERVE A PAT ON THE BACK. MANY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND "EXPERTS" INSTEAD, PREFER TO GIVE DAD A KICK IN THE NADS. FATHERS NEED SUPPORT, NOT CRITICISM.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT REASON I CREATED THIS WEB SITE IS TO PROVIDE PARENTS WITH HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION ON PARENTING AND MENTAL HEALTH.
For too long "Experts" have failed to admit the limits of their ability to predict:
1 - The best ways to parent
2 - Outcomes related to parenting
3 - Unintended consequences and risks of following their advice
MY ADVICE IS TO TRUST FATHER'S INTUITION AND PARENT THE WAY YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT. MOST OF THE "NEW" PARENTING TECHNIQUES AND PHILOSOPHIES ARE "NEW" BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO WORK THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY.
CHECK OUT MY "HEROES" FOR SOME PARENTING ADVICE THAT IS UP TODATE WITH THE SCIENCE BUT DOESN'T LOSE SIGHT OF COMMON SENSE.
Why another web site? The modern world has many sources of information for parents: the internet, professional organizations, books, "the experts". This is too much information for the average father. In addition, much of the mental health and parenting dialogue reflects financial interests, bad ideology or it is siphoned trough committees and tempered so as not to offend.
Please, Don't take my word for it! Research these issues yourself. I've made it easy by providing links to the sources.
This site is the creation of Kristopher Kaliebe, MD. Kristopher is a Board Certified in both Adult Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Kaliebe is also trained in Forensics Psychiatry(Psychiatry and the Law). Yet Fatherslittlehelper.com
would not exist without the help of three good friends (and colleagues) who have provided support and guidance. You can see our profiles in "THE PROs".
FROM MY LAWYER: I am a psychiatrist, not your psychiatrist (unless I really am your psychiatrist).
