#54 How to be a father and frequent business traveller – with Rhoda Bangerter
Holding the Fort Abroad · Rhoda Bangerter
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Show Notes
Synopsis:
The ICAN Model helps you stay in touch with what is going on with your family’s life. If you are a father who travels, you may find it tricky to be emotionally present when you are away from home for work. The risk is that you feel like a stranger when you come home, especially if you’ve been away a long time, or that you stop being involved in raising your children.
The ICAN model gives you a framework to stay connected. Your partner at home can use this framework to support your involvement as well.
You will learn:
The risks involved if you are not involved in family life
The ICAN Model:
- Involvement and Intention
- Consistency
- Awareness
- Nurture
Using the ICAN Model in the three levels of parenting: the big picture vision, the implementation, and finally the responsive moments of parenting
Resources mentioned in the episode:
- The ICAN Model was created by Dr Ken Canfield
- Staying connected - with Kerry Byrne, episode 7
- How to engage your child on the phone (download)
- The five love languages
- Long distance bracelets
- The Toolbox for Multilingual Families, by Ute Limacher-Riebold
- Record stories with Audacity
- Record and then save as an mp3 file you can send to your children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBzk0MtuB5E