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Rookie Dad: Fun and Easy Exercises and Games for Dads and Babies in Their First Year

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Using the sports theme, the author presents dozens of games to play with your baby to build their physical and mental development, as well as to promote bonding. My husband and I found that we just "naturally" did some of the games suggested before we even had the book, but it offers a wide variety of things to choose from and gives and interesting background on what benefits the activity offers.

This is a great book for a new dad OR mom and offers games from birth until about 2 years old.

If you are looking for a book with tons of fun games and excercises to do with your infant, this is the book. I swear by it. We were trying to help my daughter crawl and I found an excercise/game in the book that had her crawling in days!!!

Most of the exercises are good and one usually comes to them naturally. It's a good reference to get a base set of things to do with your child. The only problem is it's poorly laid out meaning some of the sets are birth - 3 months with another set being birth to 6 months. Why not have them birth, 3 months, 6 months etc. The pictures are somewhat useless as well in that they show a guy and a child smiling. Diagrams with how the exercises should be performed might be a bit better.

I absolutely hate the condescending tone which the writer takes in her assumption that all Dads are mainstream sports fans or jocks. There seems to be a little bit of good stuff here, but I'm finding it hard to wade through the dumbed down writing style. Most of the "games" are no brainers that any attentive dad will come across anyway.

I previewed this book at B&N and knew I had to have it. It has a huge number of exercises and games to do with your kid, which is great for me because I only know like 3 things to do. I highly recommend this book.

This is a wonderful book for new or soon to be dads. Some of the games in it I had already been playing with my son. But it has more that I never even thought of. The games are intended to teach your child good motor,and mental skills while the exercises keep you in shape.It is also a great way to bond with your son/daughter and help them build trust in you. If you dont like to read thats alright the chapters rae not too long and are quite funny in some cases.

My husband is going to be a first time Dad this September.
For Father's day I chose this book as a little guide for him to enjoy.I know he is going to be a fantastic Father but wanted to give him some fun games to enjoy with the baby.I love the way the book explains all the exercises incorporating the whole sporting theme.The pictures are also fantastic.I just know my husband is going to gain so much from this book in turn enjoying his time with our child.I am pleased I chose this book for his first.

Got this for my hubby for Christmas last year. He opened it a few times. Was not impressed with the "games" they had in there. Pretty obvious type things, or variations of the same game, or just strange ones. To actually purchase a book and then have it give "airplane" as an example of a unique game to play with a toddler? Come on! Who doesn't know how to fly an infant around on their arms, or to bounce them on their knee? We're new parents too, so it's not like we knew all the games there are...but the ones we didn't know were just lame. Not worth a $1 in my opinion! Wish I hadn't spend the $$ on this, we ended up giving it away.

This book was a gift for my friends husband, as they just had their baby. He really does like the book. I thought it was a good idea to buy, as it gives new dads some good ideas what to do with their newborns, other than stare at them :-)