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Cargando... You're the daddy : the ultimate guide to being a new dad for blokespor Stephen Giles
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In this follow-up to the successful 'From Lad to Dad', a year in the life of a first-time father is documented, alongside information panels packed with practical ideas and advice for other first-time fathers. Once the baby is born, your life will be packed with new challenges to face and new skills to learn. You're the Daddy will be your companion throughout your baby's crucial first year and reassure you if you find that things are getting tough! And at the end of this year, this trusting guide will ensure that you will have mastered the art of being a great dad. It follows the journey of Stephen Giles and his progress through the first year of his baby's life. He tells his story with great humour, and plenty of practical ideas for other first-time fathers covering areas such as the conflict between work pressure and sleepless nights, your changing relationship with your partner, and how to keep the 'competitive dad syndrome' under control. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Giles has deliberately attempted a much more light hearted style than is typically the case with the more high brow academia of childcare manuals. At times he is funny and that is a good thing because it is easy to lose a sense of humour when the lack of sleep kicks in. His journey is not particularly remarkable but that is why this book has some use. There are a few occasions when the frustrations of parenting a new baby seem all-consuming and we all know that us men don't want to ask for help so just reading that Giles experienced it as well and that it wasn't so bad in the end anyway is a positive.
Unfortunately for Giles, his own story is not universal enough for this to be a highly rated depiction. Giles doesn't have a real job and for some months he is the primary carer. For those few men in this situation it will undoubtedly be heartening to find others in the same position. For the majority of us who are not, this is a missed opportunity. Many of the issues of fatherhood seem to be more in the relationship with the mother than with the child. Raising the baby isn't that difficult as there are only a limited number of problems and ways to resolve them - that those solutions don't always work doesn't mean it is any more complex it is just frustrating. Managing the relationship with the mother is much more complex and here Giles has failed because his tale is too far off the normal pattern for it to be a realistic comparison. There is at least some useful insight from what appears to be anecdotal research about the physical elements of relationships post-birth but in the main Giles is more often in the role of mother than of father.
It is worth reading this if you have little else to do while being kept up in the middle of the night. Personally, I'd rather watch sports and I imagine that most of the audience Giles thinks he is writing for feel even more strongly about that option but as a book to pick up and browse briefly without having to take in too much detail it is a reasonable distraction and it is positive to read an example of the cliched phrase that the fatherhood experience is not without precedent. ( )