The New Father : A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years (Paperback)

~ Armin A. Brott (Author)

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Fathers have long played second banana to mothers in parenting books, but Armin A. Brott, author of The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be and The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year is trying to change all that. In The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years, the third book in his New Father series, Brott takes on the second and third years of life from Dad's perspective--what he's experiencing, and what he should know. In answer to the question, "Why bother to stay involved?" Brott replies, "Three simple reasons: it's good for your kids, it's good for you, and it's good for your relationship with your partner." Brott covers the whole gamut of fatherhood issues, from developmental stages (discussed in three-month blocks) to discipline, dating, even divorce. Rather than focusing solely on kids, Brott discusses the larger experience of being a father, in a well-crafted, sensible manner. The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years gives contemporary fathers their own comprehensive reference to the challenging and delightful toddler years. --Ericka Lutz

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Brott writes honestly and earnestly. His wry sense of humor will be a relief to hassled parents. -- TIME, October 26, 1998

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Abbeville Press; 1st edition (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789203960
• ISBN-13: 978-0789203960
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #684,169 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific book for moms *and* dads, July 9, 1999

By A Customer

Since the birth of my nineteen-month-old daughter, I've been reading a lot of books about babies and parenting. By accident, I found this one. Simply put, this is a terrific book. It's a welcome antidote to all those that assume only the mom will be the hands-on parent. It's also full of sound advice and delivers its message in the perfect parenting tone -- patient, amused, astonished -- with a keen understanding of the bewilderment and frustration we all go through. My hat is off to the author for his fine work.

I actually gave the book to my husband for father's day, but have been snatching it from him to read myself. We have several friends who are about to have new babies -- I'm planning to give them copies of the author's book covering the first year as shower gifts.

For nineteen months I've been reading about parenthood and pointing out this and that passage in some parenting book to my husband. In every case, the book spoke about the mother's role, but the father was at best a shadowy figure who might help out once in a while. Given that my husband and I have had the pleasure of fully co-parenting, we were delighted to find a book focused on being a hands-on dad.

Again, bravo to the author for a fine success.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made me a better dad, November 8, 2001

By A Customer

Great boook. Continuing wisdom from the guy who's really made it possible for me and so many dads I know to be as involved with our kids as we want to be. I've followed this whole series from The Expectant Father, A Dad's Guide to the First Year, and now this one. It gave me a ton of information--not only on what my child was going through, but also on what I was going through. It really helped reassure me that what I was feeling was normal.

No question that this book has made me a better dad. Just ask my son.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Andrew Gatchell, May 12, 2003

By	A. Gatchell (Stoneham, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book after reading his book on the First Year. Organized in the same manner as the first, except divided into three month periods instead of one month, I found it again informative and funny. The information about temperaments was especially useful. We found books that became some of my daughter's favorites in the lists that he provides. Also, we are following Mr. Brott's advice about allowances and find that we are all learning. Now that my wife is pregnant again, I'm reading the Expectant Father and I expect I'll be re-reading the First Year and the Toddler Years books.