Dadding It!
Landmark Moments in Your Life as a Father... and How to Survive Them
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2020
240 pages
978-1-4729-7346-7 (ISBN)
Description
Bestselling parenting author Rob Kemp (The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide) delivers the ultimate guide to navigating your child's life milestones (0 months to 50 years) and offers advice on how fathers can best play a lasting, impactful or at least vaguely useful role in it.
Kids don't come with an instruction manual. (Not that most men would read one if they did).
Instead they're shaped by life-forming milestones and learn-as-they-go mistakes which you, as modern, responsible fathers must be there to help them deal with, solve or at least advise upon pretty much from their birth until you've drawn your last breath.
This book will give you a head's up on all the defining moments you are guaranteed to experience as a parent. It'll warn you when your life is going to take a change of course, how your child is going to influence the choices you make and give you some practical, knowing, sanity saving methods of dealing with them.
Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations - but will still come as a shock to you for the first time. And for every milestone moment, landmark action or parenting task to perform there's a sound advice and strategic solutions to help you cope and even discover the purported 'joys' of parenthood...
Kids don't come with an instruction manual. (Not that most men would read one if they did).
Instead they're shaped by life-forming milestones and learn-as-they-go mistakes which you, as modern, responsible fathers must be there to help them deal with, solve or at least advise upon pretty much from their birth until you've drawn your last breath.
This book will give you a head's up on all the defining moments you are guaranteed to experience as a parent. It'll warn you when your life is going to take a change of course, how your child is going to influence the choices you make and give you some practical, knowing, sanity saving methods of dealing with them.
Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations - but will still come as a shock to you for the first time. And for every milestone moment, landmark action or parenting task to perform there's a sound advice and strategic solutions to help you cope and even discover the purported 'joys' of parenthood...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-7346-7 (9781472973467)
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Rob Kemp is a UK-based writer specialising in fatherhood, masculinity and health & fitness, and the bestselling author of The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide, and The New Dad's Survival Guide. His latest book, The Good Guys: 50 Heroes Who Changed The World With Kindness is the bestselling boys book on Amazon. He wrote them after his own experiences as a new dad. He regularly contributes fatherhood-focused features to a variety of publications and websites including the Telegraph, Boots Parenting, Amazon Parents, the Guardian, Sainsbury's Fresh Ideas, DaddiLife (as @expectantdad), The DadClub, and Little London.
He has spoken at parenting events including the Mumsnet event BumpFest. His work for Men's Health magazine has been syndicated throughout the world and he's made many radio and TV appearances speaking on men's issues and parenting topics.
He has spoken at parenting events including the Mumsnet event BumpFest. His work for Men's Health magazine has been syndicated throughout the world and he's made many radio and TV appearances speaking on men's issues and parenting topics.
Content
Introduction
The early years: Milestone
1 Love at first sight
2 Holding your baby for the first time
3 Driving your baby home
4 Baby acknowledges that 'you're the daddy'
5 Feeding time
6 Getting your baby's name right
7 First baby transporter
8 Building a nursery
9 The baby visitors
10 First public nappy change
11 Taking baby out on your own
12 Raising baby's head
13 Father and baby bonding sessions
14 Baby vomits on you
15 First decent night's sleep
16 Making a splash at bath time
17 Baby finds what you've been hiding
18 Baby gets 'sign language'
19 Baby gets to grips with you
20 When you hear yourself speaking in months
21 First night out together without your baby
22 Having a conversation that isn't about your baby
23 Baby starts to talk... almost
24 Having sex again
25 Baby teeth
26 Baby pressures on marital relationship
27 Baby responds to its own name
28 First photos of your baby
29 Transition to solids
30 First steps
31 Taking baby to a pub
32 Moments of panic
The toddler years: Milestones 33-52
33 Path to potty training
34 Time for baby number two?
35 Fit to father more kids?
36 Doctor Dad - at-a-glance guide to child illnesses
37 Writing a will - who should raise your kids if you die?
38 First-time first aid
39 Kids' party time
40 First-time tantrums
41 First time on a plane
42 Reading to your child
43 Choosing your first family pet
44 Finding out that your kid's a fussy eater
45 Child tortures family pet
46 Family member dies
47 First time you put your kid on a bike
48 Screening a babysitter
49 Panic that you're not cutting it as a parent
50 Making more time for your kids
51 Auditing your essential dad skills
52 Requesting flexible working time
The school years: Milestones
53 Dad's first day at the school gate
54 Getting to know your kid's friends
55 Helping them overcome shyness
56 Your kid swears for the first time
57 Using and perfecting your dad joke repertoire
58 First time at the match
59 Question time
60 Picking pocket money
61 Your kid makes the school team
62 Civil war among siblings
63 Your kid's first phone
64 Dad's race exposes the dad bod
65 Summer holiday survival
66 Dealing with the school bully
67 Parents' evening and feigning an interest in your kid's education
68 Child gets a bad school report
69 Exposed to something nasty online
13 facts on how dads do things differently
The teenager years: Milestones
70 Kid dresses 'inappropriately'
71 Having 'a chat'. Serious talk time
72 Kid starts coming home late
73 Issues around body image
74 Putting it all down to hormones
75 Dads and teenage misbehaviour
76 Kid is struggling at school
77 Kid comes home drunk
78 First stand-up row with your teenager
79 Fixing your kid's 'laziness'
80 First time as the dad taxi
81 Hosting a teenage party
82 Kid caught doing drugs
83 Giving them careers advice
84 Having to punish your teenager
85 Parental differences
86 Meeting your teenager's 'special one
87 Musical differences
88 Political awakening
89 In the eyes of the law
90 Teaching your teen to drive
91 Funding student lifestyles
92 Further education: a father's role
93 Their gap year of discovery
94 Sending your kid off to work
95 Child takes over the family business
96 Fond farewell
97 Dealing with the empty nest
98 Rediscovering life after the kids have left
99 Boomerang kid comes back
100 Establishing boundaries with your adult kids
101 Dad's midlife crisis
102 Giving them away...
103 From good father to Godfather
104 Dad becomes Grandad
Father ahead
Acknowledgements
Useful resources for dads
Source credits
Index
About the author
The early years: Milestone
1 Love at first sight
2 Holding your baby for the first time
3 Driving your baby home
4 Baby acknowledges that 'you're the daddy'
5 Feeding time
6 Getting your baby's name right
7 First baby transporter
8 Building a nursery
9 The baby visitors
10 First public nappy change
11 Taking baby out on your own
12 Raising baby's head
13 Father and baby bonding sessions
14 Baby vomits on you
15 First decent night's sleep
16 Making a splash at bath time
17 Baby finds what you've been hiding
18 Baby gets 'sign language'
19 Baby gets to grips with you
20 When you hear yourself speaking in months
21 First night out together without your baby
22 Having a conversation that isn't about your baby
23 Baby starts to talk... almost
24 Having sex again
25 Baby teeth
26 Baby pressures on marital relationship
27 Baby responds to its own name
28 First photos of your baby
29 Transition to solids
30 First steps
31 Taking baby to a pub
32 Moments of panic
The toddler years: Milestones 33-52
33 Path to potty training
34 Time for baby number two?
35 Fit to father more kids?
36 Doctor Dad - at-a-glance guide to child illnesses
37 Writing a will - who should raise your kids if you die?
38 First-time first aid
39 Kids' party time
40 First-time tantrums
41 First time on a plane
42 Reading to your child
43 Choosing your first family pet
44 Finding out that your kid's a fussy eater
45 Child tortures family pet
46 Family member dies
47 First time you put your kid on a bike
48 Screening a babysitter
49 Panic that you're not cutting it as a parent
50 Making more time for your kids
51 Auditing your essential dad skills
52 Requesting flexible working time
The school years: Milestones
53 Dad's first day at the school gate
54 Getting to know your kid's friends
55 Helping them overcome shyness
56 Your kid swears for the first time
57 Using and perfecting your dad joke repertoire
58 First time at the match
59 Question time
60 Picking pocket money
61 Your kid makes the school team
62 Civil war among siblings
63 Your kid's first phone
64 Dad's race exposes the dad bod
65 Summer holiday survival
66 Dealing with the school bully
67 Parents' evening and feigning an interest in your kid's education
68 Child gets a bad school report
69 Exposed to something nasty online
13 facts on how dads do things differently
The teenager years: Milestones
70 Kid dresses 'inappropriately'
71 Having 'a chat'. Serious talk time
72 Kid starts coming home late
73 Issues around body image
74 Putting it all down to hormones
75 Dads and teenage misbehaviour
76 Kid is struggling at school
77 Kid comes home drunk
78 First stand-up row with your teenager
79 Fixing your kid's 'laziness'
80 First time as the dad taxi
81 Hosting a teenage party
82 Kid caught doing drugs
83 Giving them careers advice
84 Having to punish your teenager
85 Parental differences
86 Meeting your teenager's 'special one
87 Musical differences
88 Political awakening
89 In the eyes of the law
90 Teaching your teen to drive
91 Funding student lifestyles
92 Further education: a father's role
93 Their gap year of discovery
94 Sending your kid off to work
95 Child takes over the family business
96 Fond farewell
97 Dealing with the empty nest
98 Rediscovering life after the kids have left
99 Boomerang kid comes back
100 Establishing boundaries with your adult kids
101 Dad's midlife crisis
102 Giving them away...
103 From good father to Godfather
104 Dad becomes Grandad
Father ahead
Acknowledgements
Useful resources for dads
Source credits
Index
About the author
