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by Dorot y W. Robi SOD
Some people em to breeze right through parenthood
with no problems! The rest of us are hounded by two gnawing
questions: 1) i my child the only one in the world who does
the inexplicable things? and 2 Am I the only one in the
world who d esn t know what they're doing when it come
to raising children?
Bill Co by book, Fatherhood (Doubleday 1986). gives
a othing an er to the n gging fear. He reminds u that
children have always a ted abnormally. Even bac in Bible
days, Jo eph's brothers behaved b dly.
He also a ure us that all parent m e mistakes. Tho
first parents Adam and Eve, "never quite seemed to under­
tand sibling rivalry."
Co by b on f therhood is a comforting, heart-warm-
in , I ughing-out-loud book on child-rearing. nd it's not ju t
for f thers!
. The b begins ith the statement: 'So you've de ided
to have child'" This statement i follo ed by a ries of
ntences which m e one really have strong doubts about
the wisdom of such decision.
ith humor falling all over the pes, the book takes us
through the t ges of a child s gr wth from that rather faulty
decision to have one of tho e "bel ved urces of dirty
laundry", right on up to the time when the child finally
re che adulth d and leaves home - and moves ba k in
ain!
A go d survey of the kinds of problems tackled in this
boo c n be ummed up in a quick pee at the chapter head­
ings. The pro nd cons of having children are discu d in
the chapter entitled: Is Three Crowd?" "The e Beggers
e Ch 0 rs" and' Are They Evolution's Missing Link?"
Parent who have been wringing their hands over their
children' problem in h 01 will find m lace in the
chapter called 'The Fourth R i Ridi ulou ness.' In this
ction Co y caution: "0 matter ho much love you
give, of cour you will still have the endlessly maddenin
j b of tryin to get your child to do the right thin ... "
Can't you ju hear parent around the orld saying
Amen" t th t1
h t' the wonderful thin b ut thi boo. It let us
kno that there aren't any real exp rt out there. Even
meon who h s much money, educati n, and fam as
Bill 0 by mu t face me of the same problems that we
h ve when it come to rai in children. Parenth d is the
re t equalizer!
Thi boo , though extremely humourou , is not just for
fun alon. ndemeath all the 1 yer of comedy are me real
jewel of isdom. It primary f us i on the father' role in
child-re rin .
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