Armin Brott

Website: http://www.mrdad.com
Residence : Oakland, CA

Biographical information
Armin Brott is an author, talk show host, and nationally recognized expert on parenting. He has written or co-written six critically acclaimed classics on contemporary fatherhood: The Expectant Father, The New Father, A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years, The Single Father, Throwaway Dads, and Father for Life. Armin has also written The Ten-Second Internet Manager, The Engaged Customer, The End of Advertising as We Know It, and The Super Mind-Body Cure.

He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, American Baby, Parenting, Child, Men's Health, The Washington Post and dozens of other major publications. Armin has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including The Today Show, CBS Overnight, The Early Show, Fox News, and Politically Incorrect. His extensive work on fatherhood issues has been featured in such places as Glamour, Time, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and many others. Armin writes the "Ask Mr. Dad" newspaper column, syndicated in Northern California and he's also the host of "Positive Parenting," a weekly radio program that airs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. Armin is on the Board of Advisors of the Men's Health Network. The father of three, Brott lives with his family in Oakland, California.

Brott has spoken at the Congressional Wives Club, Washington, DC, University of California, Riverside Georgia Department of Health and Human Services, Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood, International Fatherhood Conference (organized by the National Center for Strategic Nonprofit Planning and Community Leadership), Women's Freedom Network Conference, National Fatherhood Initiative Conference, Fathers' Rights Equality Exchange Conference, Malik Yoba's Daddy Conference 2000, Parenting workshop at Sonoma State College, Parenting workshop at Skirball Center in Los Angeles, Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and Numerous other hospitals and expectant/new parents' groups.

Discussion topics
Armin Brott is one of the very few people around who can discuss the special concerns of fathers and families and address the issue of what all of us-men, women, government institutions, et al -can do to help dads get more involved, as well as the benefits of doing so. Father involvement is critical; children who grow up without an involved father are more likely to get involved in crime, to do worse in school, to become teen parents, to have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, and are generally less healthy than kids who do have involved dads. Armin's central theme is that as a society we all need men to be more involved in raising their children. The problem is that too many men don't have the tools, the confidence, the education, or the support to do so. In his lectures and books he gives dads all of that, and gives their wives the help they need to encourage and support their husbands.

• The importance of fathers in their children's lives
• Why involved fatherhood is good for families, marriages, kids, and the dads themselves
• What women can do to get their husbands more involved
• What dads can do to get and stay more involved
• How fathers change and develop over the course of their lives and in relation to their children
• The myths and barriers that keep men from being as involved as they want to be
• Special concerns of expectant and new fathers
• Keeping dads involved after divorce
• Special concerns of single fathers
• How mothers and fathers can work together to minimize conflict after divorce
• What fathers can do to help their children become mensches
• What doctors and other health care practitioners can do to make dads feel more welcome

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