found that children do better in school if their dads engage in activities with them like reading, drawing, singing and telling stories.
Similarly, it found that dads who interacted with their 5-year-olds more helped their test scores when they turned 7. Moms who engaged with their children had more of an impact on their social development than on their grades.“Mothers still tend to assume the primary carer role and therefore tend to do the most childcare, but if fathers actively engage in childcare too, it significantly increases the likelihood of children getting better grades in primary school,” said, a research fellow at Leeds University Business School, who led the study.