The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad
Your Essential Manual for Being an Awesome Full-Time Father
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships and addressing male loneliness, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose.
The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads' group, and puts it into a format to help new stay-at-home fathers. Characterized by actionable and direct advice to fathers, the book takes on parenting from a father's point of view and encourages dads to use their natural talents to become a better parent. That advice is further bolstered by an additional 57 other dads who also give advice. All this advice is framed by the author's personal stories, which help the reader connect with the content and drives the advice home. This is a book that takes on day-to-day parenting, not just as a stay-at-home dad--working fathers could benefit from this book as much as at-home dads.
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Carpenter, a stay-at-home dad since 2008, offers practical insights and plenty of comic asides in his buoyant debut. His wisdom was hard-won: "For some dumbass reason, my wife and I decided to move across the country during my first month as the primary caregiver." After his wife moved to their new home, Carpenter's job was to "take care of the two kids, sell our house, pack our belongings, organize a daily schedule, and provide a clean and loving learning environment." His success, he writes, stemmed from patience, flexibility, and loads of self-compassion, and led to the practices and strategies laid out here. Among the advice is to establish a weekly routine to help children know what to expect, turn budget-planning and bill-paying into a team activities, and to clean the first two rooms a spouse will see upon their return home from work if one doesn't have time to do the whole house. Carpenter mixes general advice (parenting should be viewed as an adventure) with quirky anecdotes of things he's done with his children (visiting the World's Largest Ball of Twine). The savvy mix of lighthearted quips and straightforward guidance will be a lifesaver for at-home fathers.
