Be Prepared
A Practical Handbook for New Dads
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- 15,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
HALF A MILLION NEW DADS CAN’T BE WRONG!
Fully updated for the digital age, the 20th anniversary edition of the bestselling Be Prepared is the must-have survival guide for men entering the trenches of fatherhood. A generation of kids was raised on the original, and the new edition is packed fuller than your diaper bag with essential info, ingenious tips, and fascinating insights into the infant mind (spoiler: they’re lunatics).
Welcome to the brotherhood of fatherhood! Sure, you’re anxious. But have no fear. Within these pages, you’ll find all the tools you need to understand, nurture, and troubleshoot your tiny little sprout. Taking you from your baby’s birth to their first birthday party, you’ll learn:
-the secret meaning of peek-a-boo
-how to conjure a burp
-breast pump assembly
-why babies have giant heads
-ways to stay fit using the baby as a kettlebell
-how to change a diaper at a packed sports stadium
…and much more.
Filled with hundreds of illustrations, helpful diagrams, and detailed instructions, Be Prepared is the ultimate guide for sleep-deprived, drool-encrusted fathers everywhere.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Parenting is hard, and reading many of the jargon-filled parenting books out there can make it even harder, but with a combination of smart writing and clever illustrations, husband-and-wife team Greenberg (The Pop-up Book of Phobias; etc.) and illustrator Hayden make both seem fun, if not easy. As the subtitle suggests, the book is filled with advice that will appeal to the solution-centered male perspective, from step-by-step swaddling instructions to a guide for identifying six distinct infant crying patterns. (A hunger cry, for example, is "a pattern of low-pitched, rhythmic moans, growing more and more insistent," whereas a boredom pattern is "a low-volume whimper which stops and starts irregularly.") Not only is Greenberg and Hayden's information useful, but it's also been vetted by "several distinguished fellows" at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Along with the conventional chapters on baby-proofing your house and taking a baby's temperature are more obscure and amusing topics, such as how to videotape your baby and how to conduct a "Mirror Puppet Sing Along" to sooth a crying baby while driving (the technique requires two mirrors, a hand-puppet and an indifference to looking silly). Hayden's drawings strike just the right balance between textbook-boring and tongue-in-cheek funny, depicting everything from a sketch of a bottle of teething gel to a drawing of an exhausted father snoozing in a business meeting. Greenberg and Hayden have succeeded in providing new dads (and many moms, for that matter) with an entertaining and informative cheat sheet.
