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January 3, 2014
I was pretty near a bookshelf filled with 70's books a couple of days after we found out my wife was pregnant. I grabbed this off the shelf and started reading it.
There's alot of sense in there, despite its age. Its not really that concrete - the advice is a bit general and vague. It boils down to - trust yourself and your intuition and take other peoples advice with a grain of salt. I found this had a nice confidence building effect on me, which i'm sure is going to be valuable.
One big bit of advice! - Forget your job/career if you choose to be a parent. You should be spending the maximum amount of time possible with your children and partner, regardless of your gender. He has some choice words for the breakdown of the family unit, largely blaming a government and society who do not support families properly. It made me want to leave America and go back to Europe where these things are treated more valuably.
There's a fun chapter at the end called - The Future Of Parenthood! or something similar. The author describes the various social movements changing parenthood at the time(1974). Its really amazing how most of those movements are still either finding their feet, or seem further back than how he describes them, and the problems that they face haven't really been overcome.
Fun/Fast read!
There's alot of sense in there, despite its age. Its not really that concrete - the advice is a bit general and vague. It boils down to - trust yourself and your intuition and take other peoples advice with a grain of salt. I found this had a nice confidence building effect on me, which i'm sure is going to be valuable.
One big bit of advice! - Forget your job/career if you choose to be a parent. You should be spending the maximum amount of time possible with your children and partner, regardless of your gender. He has some choice words for the breakdown of the family unit, largely blaming a government and society who do not support families properly. It made me want to leave America and go back to Europe where these things are treated more valuably.
There's a fun chapter at the end called - The Future Of Parenthood! or something similar. The author describes the various social movements changing parenthood at the time(1974). Its really amazing how most of those movements are still either finding their feet, or seem further back than how he describes them, and the problems that they face haven't really been overcome.
Fun/Fast read!
May 23, 2013
A fun read. Originally published in 1974. Parts of the book made me feel as if I was parenting in the wrong decade. :-)
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