To help Danish fathers become better parents, a new application will be made available on the iOS this weekend. Dubbed FAR, this application gives advice to parents especially to new dads.
CPH Post reported that the new introduction was made possible through the efforts of Kasper Susaa and Laus Risby. These two people are also the brains behind parenting website DaddyO.dk which focuses on the roles of fathers.
This website description disclosed that it was launched in 2014 when both developers became first-time dads. "We write about all aspects of life as a father - from the two famous lines on the pregnancy test to fly and scream at night. All with a man twist," they noted on the DaddyO website.
In coordination with the physiotherapist association Danske Fysioterapeuter, Susaa and Risby the application will be made available this Sunday. The developers claimed that they are planning to have an English version of the application in the near future.
"We had discussions with our backers about the language and decided that the Danish market was the obvious way to go, but we have the content now, so it would just be a case of getting it translated," Susaa said in the CPH Post. He also noted that they wanted an approach which is more inclusive for dads.
"We would like to develop an app that isn't written for both genders, but specifically for fathers, and to break from it being a women's universe" he added. The developers claimed that advice for fathers in this application are not those conventional ones.
It was mentioned by CPH Post that the guidance provided by the website is related to some of the things they are interested in. One good example is likening the first pregnancy trimester to the World Cup. "Everyone's happy to be in the World Cup, but there are challenges," the app was quoted by the same report as saying.
Susaa noted that FAR also gives fathers useful tips on how they can interact with their kids. "It can open fathers' eyes about how much they can contribute. Both during pregnancy and in the beginning, where many perhaps think that it is the woman who breastfeeds, 'so I'll go and wash up instead'," he added.
