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Download or read book The Book of Dads written by Ben George and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, The Book of Dads brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers—or anyone who has been or loved a parent—unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and on point, but with an eye toward becoming a classic for readers return to again and again. Contributors include Ben Fountain, Charles Baxter, Jim Shepard, Clyde Edgerton, Neal Pollack, Rick Bragg, Anthony Doerr, Michael Thomas, Davy Rothbart, Richard Bausch, Nick Flynn, Brandon R. Schrand, Rick Bass, Sebastian Matthews, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Steve Almond, David Gessner, Darin Strauss, Brock Clarke, and Sven Birkerts
Book Synopsis This Is the Book You Give Your Dad by : Matt Goulet
Download or read book This Is the Book You Give Your Dad written by Matt Goulet and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quirky and charming illustrated book for the #1 man in your life—dad!—is complete with all of the facts, fun, and knowledge he needs to become the King of Dads. Let’s face it: no one ever knows what sort of present to get their dad, whether it’s his birthday, Chanukah, Christmas, Father’s Day, or even just a little nudge to remind him you care. And you’ll probably just get him a book anyway. So what to do? Well the one solution to this perennial problem is here. This Is the Book You Give Your Dad is the fitting purchase for Dad, no matter the occasion. This paper-over-board little illustrated gift book is brimming with wit and wisdom—just like dad!—including how to give a toast for any occasion and a quick history of the polo shirt and the periodic table of beer and even ideal lawn mowing patterns. There’s even a customizable dedication page where you can add a personal touch. While the advice, tips, and how-to’s in the book range from practical to humorous the information is sure to please Dad’s aesthetic taste. This Is the Book You Give Your Dad is one-stop shopping for the guy who deserves only the very, very best.
Book Synopsis The Greatness of Dads by : Kirsten Matthew
Download or read book The Greatness of Dads written by Kirsten Matthew and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every dad, grandfather, father-to-be, step-dad, or father figure, this book is the ultimate expression of love. Featuring compelling quotes, literary excerpts, and pop culture references as well as inspiring photographs of fathers (some are famous and some are heroes only to their own families), The Greatness of Dads celebrates the unique bond between dads and their children in an unforgettable book that showcases the universal threads of fatherhood: love, discipline, responsibility, fun, embarrassment, sadness, and joy. The compelling prose, heartwarming images of fathers and their children, and variety of dads included make this handsome volume the ideal gift for Father's Day, birthdays, holidays, or just to say "I love you."
Book Synopsis The Daddy Shift by : Jeremy Adam Smith
Download or read book The Daddy Shift written by Jeremy Adam Smith and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood—for men, their families, and for American societyIt’s a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with—and what do they rejoice in? How does taking up the mother’s traditional role affect a father’s relationship with his partner, children, and extended family? And what does stay-at-home fatherhood mean for the larger society?In chapters that alternate between large-scale analysis and intimate portraits of men and their families, journalist Jeremy Adam Smith traces the complications, myths, psychology, sociology, and history of a new set of social relationships with far-reaching implications. As the American economy faces its greatest crisis since the Great Depression, Smith reveals that many mothers today have the ability to support families and fathers are no longer narrowly defined by their ability to make money—they have the capacity to be caregivers as well.The result, Smith argues, is a startling evolutionary advance in the American family, one that will help families better survive the twenty-first century. As Smith explains, stay-at-home dads represent a logical culmination of fifty years of family change, from a time when the idea of men caring for children was literally inconceivable, to a new era when at-home dads are a small but growing part of the landscape. Their numbers and cultural importance will continue to rise—and Smith argues that they must rise, as the unstable, global, creative, technological economy makes flexible gender roles both more possible and more desirable.But the stories of real people form the heart of this book: couples from every part of the country and every walk of life. They range from working class to affluent, and they are black, white, Asian, and Latino. We meet Chien, who came to Kansas City as a refugee from the Vietnam War and today takes care of a growing family; Kent, a midwestern dad who nursed his son through life-threatening disabilities (and Kent’s wife, Misun, who has never doubted for a moment that breadwinning is the best thing she can do for her family); Ta-Nehisi, a writer in Harlem who sees involved fatherhood as "the ultimate service to black people"; Michael, a gay stay-at-home dad in Oakland who enjoys a profoundly loving and egalitarian partnership with his husb∧ and many others. Through their stories, we discover that as America has evolved and diversified, so has fatherhood.
Download or read book Amazing Dads written by Bridget Hamilton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the remarkable fathers in your life, this book shares the wisdom of the animal kingdom's most caring fathers and showcases the power of a father's love through beautiful images and quotes.
Download or read book The Book of Dad written by Paul Barker and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book that will forever define the essentially comic state of being, acting, looking, and sounding like a Dad.
Download or read book Fatherhood written by Fatherly, and published by Harper Horizon. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a parent can be daunting . . . terrifying, in fact. This is especially true for dads. Where’s the road map? Well, you’re looking at it. This book from the editors of Fatherly, the largest digital brand for dads, is a one-stop source for fathers-to-be, empowering them to be the best parent they can be--with both confidence and joy. New fathers grapple with both practical and existential questions: Is my baby supposed to do that? How do I afford to make my family thrive? How does swaddling work again? Who am I, and what kind of dad will I become? Fatherhood is here to answer all of these questions and more. This comprehensive guide walks fathers through everything they need to know--practically, emotionally, and philosophically--over the course of the first year of a baby’s life. The content is divided by developmental stage: Pregnancy up to birth Infancy (the first 500 days) Toddlerhood (days 500 to 1,000) By offering data, anecdotes, and expert-driven analysis, the authors prep dads for what’s ahead, letting them know they’re not alone on their journey. Fatherhood is the book every father and father-to-be needs.
Book Synopsis A Father's Right to Be a Dad by : Kevin R. McKinney
Download or read book A Father's Right to Be a Dad written by Kevin R. McKinney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother McKinney encourages the brothers to Stand Up because it's time for a change. Fathers must now become Daddies and Stand Up, Stand Proud and Stand Strong by owning up to their responsibility to actively nurture and raise their children. He also teaches men that what you do not deal with will eventually deal with you. Therefore, he encourages fathers to take their rightful place in the lives of their sons and daughters and embrace the term of endearment of being called "Dad". **************** the author, Kevin R. McKinney, is seen as a man who Stands up, Stands Proud and Stands Strong along with carrying the following attributes: ? Provider ? Leader ? Disciplinarian ? Protector ? Someone who brings confirmation to his daughter's life and about what God is saying ? Guiding hand ? Bridge between his daughters and their mother Kevin McKinney's destiny is to bring restoration to relationships between a Daddy and his seed.
Download or read book I Wonder written by Doyin Richards and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for Father's Day or all year round! What do daddies do with their children? They style hair, they carpool, they cuddle (after they look under beds for monsters). They play, they motivate, and they comfort. Dads may sometimes wonder if they're doing a good job. But one thing they're sure of is that they love every moment with their children. Doyin Richards is a dad whose mission is to celebrate "how fatherhood is the coolest and most rewarding gig a man will ever have in his lifetime." I Wonder is a book for families to share on special occasions, and every day.
Book Synopsis Be a Better Dad Today! by : Gregory W. Slayton
Download or read book Be a Better Dad Today! written by Gregory W. Slayton and published by Revell. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be a Better Dad Today! is a global bestseller for a reason: it's one of the best books on fatherhood you will ever read. Warmly endorsed by dozens of America's best-known and most respected fathers, the book lays out the "Ten Tools of Fatherhood" that will help every dad who uses them. The book is the product of Slayton's thirty-year study of fatherhood on five different continents, his research, and his own experience raising four children with his wife of twenty-six years. Slayton's easy-to-read, friendly style makes it a fun read, and the many great real-life stories bring it to life. Be a Better Dad Today! is an inspirational, encouraging, and down-to-earth guidebook for every father who wants to be a better dad--for his family's sake and his own. With humor, empathy, common sense, and engaging stories, Slayton reveals proven and powerful tools and techniques that will help every dad fulfill his God-given responsibilities. Whether parenting younger or older kids, boys or girls, blended families or as a single dad (or even as a father-to-be), readers will find wise insights and practical, doable action steps for becoming the best dad they can be. The book makes a great gift for Father's Day, Christmas, birthdays, or any day. And since the Slaytons are dedicating 100 percent of all royalties from the book to fatherhood and family charities serving the US Military and at-risk families, your purchase will a blessing to the fathers and families who serve our nation every day.
Book Synopsis Deconstructing Dads by : Laura Tropp
Download or read book Deconstructing Dads written by Laura Tropp and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t think of themselves as babysitting their own children, but as central decision makers, along with mothers, as parents. Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary edited collection of essays authored by prominent scholars in the fields of media, sociology, and cultural studies who address how media represent the image of the father in popular culture. This collection explores the history of representation of fathers like the “bumbling dad” to question and challenge how far popular culture has come in its representation of paternal figures. Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of media, including how advertising creates expectations of play and father, crime shows and the new hero father, and men as paternal figures in horror films. The book also explores changing definitions of fatherhood by looking at such subjects as how the media represents sperm donation as complicating the definition of father and how specific groups have been represented as fathers, including gay men as dads and Latino fathers in film. This collection examines the media’s depiction of the “good” father to study how it both challenges and reshapes the ways in which we think of family, masculinity, and gender roles.
Download or read book DAD BK written by Phil Sparrow and published by Wipf & Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we moved to Afghanistan, we took turns watching our eight-month old daughter, our only child. I watched her in the early morning, so that my wife could sleep. Our adorable girl rolled around while I tried to read and draw some inspiration for life in that hard country. It never came. I took little joy in these times. I was resentful at our daughter for disrupting my reading, resentful at the books for failing to inspire me, and resentful at my wife for sleeping in. One day, I looked up from the lifeless text in my hands, at my child sitting on the floor, just in front of me. I knew from what little parenting instinct I had, that she wanted to engage with me. It was almost as if she said, 'Trust me'. I put down the book and decided that from that moment on, mornings were hers. These stories of being a father come from around the world - Cuba, India, the USA, Australia, England, Switzerland, Sweden and elsewhere, but they have in common an honesty about the gift and work of being a father. The Dad Book is not about how to be a better Dad. It's about being a Dad - the struggles, the regrets, the things we got wrong, and the things we get right. The moments of joy and wonder, the things we learn along the way and the things we'd rather forget. And the things we want to remember. Phil Sparrow avoids the usual happy-clappy cliches about being a dad and instead gives us a collection of frank stories that don't shy away from discussing the hard stuff. Written by dads about being dads, it is a down-to-earth book of personally informed stories about, not only the joys, but also the regrets, hurts and the confusion that often comes with the job. There's a dose of gentle humour, a few confessions of things that could have been better done, a fair bit of hope, and wisdom about what it takes to become a better father and a better man. These are stories that deserve to be widely shared. Tim Costello CEO of World Vision Australia Phil Sparrow is alternately an aid worker, writer and academic, and always a husband and dad. He and his family lived for many years in Afghanistan, where Phil worked in community development programs, with the UN and with victims of trafficking. He has written for international journals and magazines, worked in various parts of Asia and Africa, and with refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. These days, he lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife and three kids. Phil is the author of From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan refugees in Australia.
Book Synopsis The Little Big Book for Dads, Revised Edition by : Lena Tabori
Download or read book The Little Big Book for Dads, Revised Edition written by Lena Tabori and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Big Book for Dads, Welcome's companion to the best-selling The Little Big Book for Moms, is back in an updated edition featuring a fresh cover design, a revised introduction and a new ISBN. This classic is a treasure trove piled high with stories, fairy tales, poetry, activities, recipes, and songs - all selected with the dad in mind. Featuring text by authors as diverse, funny, and profound as Bill Cosby, Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and Dr. Seuss, and illustrated throughout with early twentieth-century art from artists including Jessie Wilcox Smith and Kate Greenway, The Little Big Book for Dads makes for a special reading experience to be shared between dad and a little one. Filled with activities to while away the hours together, including making sandcastles and identification games; jokes, riddles, and great tongue twisters to laugh over; and even some fun stuff to try in the kitchen with the kids, like mac and cheese, sloppy joes, and chicken fingers. All in all, it's a book dads -and kids, too- will love and appreciate.
Download or read book I Love You, Daddy! written by Edie Evans and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dads are thanked for all the fun things they do with their children with rhyming text and lovingly illustrated scenes, makes for a perfect gift this Father's Day! Daddy, I love you, and I want you to know, I have a great time wherever we go. Each page of this sweet rhyming Little Golden Book celebrates the love shared between dads and their young children. Spending time together camping, gardening, at the petting zoo, or even just hanging out at home is extra-special when Daddy is there! Filled with fun, colorful illustrations, this is a great gift for Valentine's Day or Father's Day--and a perfect read-aloud for any day!
Book Synopsis The Father's Plan by : Robert Wolgemuth
Download or read book The Father's Plan written by Robert Wolgemuth and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the Father's love and become a better dad. Married and single fathers will benefit from this study that explores the many issues facing dads from a biblical perspective. The Father's Plan: A Bible Study for Dads encourages men at every age and stage of life to strengthen their relationship with God, building a legacy of faith to leave for future generations. This seven-week study helps fathers explore fatherhood in the light of the Bible’s teachings. The personal reflection questions will draw fathers into quality personal time with their Heavenly Father, and the group discussion questions will lead dads to reflect on their legacy and to grow in their God-given role.
Download or read book Last Summer written by Raquel Jaramillo and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-year-old Caleb was afraid of the ocean. The waves were so big and fierce, and he was so little. He would play in the sand where the water could not reach him, but he refused to go in-until one magical afternoon last summer. With Dad at his side, gingerly coaxing and encouraging him to "look at the whole ocean, not just the waves," Caleb left his fears behind and stepped into the ocean for the first time.In Last Summer, author and photographer Raquel Jaramillo beautifully blends delicate sepia-tone photos with minimal text from a child's perspective to create a gentle, loving keepsake for any dad. These intimate photographs document the little boy's apprehensions, and his father's loving support, as he ultimately triumphs over fear. Readers will sense that they were there, celebrating with Caleb, sharing the moment when he first splashed into the waves as they crashed onto shore. The story is even more compelling because it's true. On that momentous summer day, Jaramillo captured these moments as her young son found the courage, with just the right words from Dad, to step into the surf. Serving as a metaphor for life, Last Summer is a warm, simple tale that will resonate with both children and adults alike as they remember their own childhood fears, and the sense of joy and independence that emerged once those fears were conquered.
Book Synopsis Better Dads, Stronger Sons by : Rick Johnson
Download or read book Better Dads, Stronger Sons written by Rick Johnson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between a father and a son is like none other. Dads have a God-given role to protect and provide for their families, always striving to teach their sons the life skills they'll need to grow into honorable men. But many dads struggle with feelings of inadequacy regarding their fathering abilities. They want to be better dads. Rick Johnson can show them how. In this insightful and practical book, Johnson shows how fathers can be equipped and inspired to be positive role models for their sons. He stresses the significance of male bonding, discipline, and spiritual leadership; discusses important topics such as sexual purity, respect, and self-discipline; and reveals the top ten mistakes to avoid as a father. From commitment and courage to honesty and humility, Better Dads, Stronger Sons helps men strive to be the dads God designed them to be--so their sons can grow to be everything they are meant to be.
