Reading Rainbow DVDs teach important life lessons around families, values, and new experiences. Always My Dad is about a girl whose parents are divorced and hardly sees her father. She thinks about him often and treasures the time she has with him. Host LeVar Burton joins a Family Day picnic and shares how he grew up in a single parent family. Viewers meet a one parent family, and see how four children and their father manage schedules, responsibilities and share lots of love. A boy who rarely hears from his father tells how the "Big Brother, Big Sister" program paired him with a special friend. This episode explores a delicate family issue in a positive way.