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Our Mission
To empower bonding experiences between dads and their children, expose kids to the power and joy of books and establish a supportive brotherhood of active fathers.
Our Vision
A world where dads and children bond through books and benefit from community.
Our Story
The Library Dads launched in the summer of 2024 by our founder Khari Arnold. When his daughter was 4 months old, Khari took her to the library for the first time. It allowed him to get out of the house, boost his daughter's language development and, most importantly, spend quality time with his baby girl. This became a fun weekly endeavor.
Over the next year, he noticed the cognitive benefits that came with reading to her each day and making weekly library trips. The results amazed him and his wife, along with their daughter's pediatrician. What kept Khari going back wasn’t the cognitive benefits, however, but the constant bonding. He felt closer to his child and made it their thing.
That experience ultimately led to the formation of The Library Dads, a movement where dads can bond with their kids while building key literacy and developmental skills.
In the process, a brotherhood is built. Dads gain support for the fatherhood journey, make connections with others in the community and gain free valuable educational resources.
Our Pillars
Bonding, Books and Brotherhood: Bonding is located at the front as it guides our mission. Books are located at the center because it is the central key to education. Brotherhood is at the end because we believe every father needs a tribe of men to have his back.
Our Foundation
We believe in the proverb, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older, he will not depart from it.”
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