Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers [Hardcover]

John Evans (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1998

MARATHON DAD is an action plan for working fathers, never confusing the roles of father and mother. Some of the problems of the Marathon Dad and the Supermom are shared, but a successful Marathon Dad works with his partner to keep the family strong: there's much more involved than just deciding whose turn it is to go grocery shopping. The author gives you real-world programs and guidance on how to stop an overloaded schedule from claiming emotional fulfillment and intimacy as its casualties--strengthening your relationship with you children and your wife.

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Dads have trouble combining work with parenting, but mental health clinician Evans shows them how. With an eight-city tour.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

John Evans is a practicing psychotherapist who counsels on the Marathon Dad complex. He lives in Berkshire County in western Massachussetts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 243 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (T); 1st edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380975203
• ISBN-13: 978-0380975204
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,438,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The next giant step in the development of fatherhood!, November 1, 1998

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This review is from: Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers (Hardcover)

In "Marathon Dad" (Avon Books, 1998) John Evans details the next giant step in the devlopment of fatherhood. Much effort has gone into the attempt to better connect men to their emotional lives. And equal energy has been invested in establishing appropriate limits for male behavior. But seldom, if ever, has there been a more detailed and concise attempt to integrate the reality of modern maleness with the passionate and heartfelt viccisitudes of fatherhood. In sparkling prose that reflects an intimate familiarity with the daily dramas of parenting, Evans takes on the ego-wobbling fears at core of modern dad's hesitancy to attach as much importance to diaper changing as slo-pitch softball; fear of confronting mom; fear of the mockery of other men; fear that in this domain, as in so many others, he will not be man enough. Evans provides the foundational gridwork upon which a strong structure of competent fathering can be built. When Freud was asked what mattered in life he responded, "Only two things - love and work." Evans amply demonstrates that the time has passed when the American man can in good conscience sacrifice one for the other. "Marathon Dad - Setting a Pace that Works for Working Fathers" is above all a book about love - a father's love for the most precious work he will ever share; his family.