Customer Reviews (6)

A collection Dad might actually read!
I was wary of buying ANY books relating to pregnancy or childrearing for my husband, but these books were worth it. Firstly, the book relies upon usable, relatable information to draw the reader in, as opposed to some male-oriented books in which the tone is overly casual and joke-y. Secondly, this advice reads less like a textbook and more like the wise advice of an imaginary father of 10 who also happens to be a terrific pediatrician. Luckily I opted to buy the 3-book set, because now I know all of these books will come in handy as we embark upon first-time parenthood.

Poor communication, slow delivery
I would not recommend buying anything from this seller.I ordered my item on Feb 26th and did not receive it until almost a full month later.When I wrote and questioned they informed me that the item had been damaged in transit, shipped back to them and they had sent out another using the USPS multi-media bulk rate mail.It would have been nice if they contacted me and let me know that this happened, as I was expecting this item for a gift and would have liked to expedite the shipping process.Also, this was a boxed set of books and it still came damaged.The corners of the box were smashed in and dented up.Overall, very unsatisfied.

Essential Reading
These Armin Brott books are absolutely essential reading for dads-to-be.

Having read the Expectant Father before my first daughter was born, I hoped I was prepared.

My daughter was born at a teaching hospital. There were two medical students in the OR for the Cesarean. After the procedure, the two students asked me was I "in the medical profession?" I asked them why they asked, and they said that I asked pertinent and relevant questions during and after the procedure that lead them to believe that I had formal training.

I laughed to myself, and thought of Armin Brott's trademark humor and informative wit. What a pleasure these books are to read. I even compared some of the information in the Expectant Father to What To Expect When You Are Expecting. The nuts and bolts are nearly the same, while Brott's tone is less formal and guy friendly.

What is important to note is that Brott assumes that the reader intends to actively engage in his child's live from conception to adulthood, not be a casual dad. I found that approach refreshing, as fatherhood has taken a hit as of late, and a lot of literature for dads-to-be reads condescending and disrespectful to men.

I already own all three in the Father Knows Best set, and made this purchase for my brother in law as a gift.

Again, essential reading for guys expecting, with a new baby, or a toddler. Armin Brott rocks.

I wish the books written for moms were this smart.
We have the first two books in this series, and they are great, intelligent, thoughtful books that focus on the whole family. All the books I have are written in the bullet-pointed, anxiety-driving style that's borrowed from women's magazines. And unlike these books, they barely mention that there is another human involved who is not the baby.

His last chapter in the first book, especially, is recommended reading for everyone, especially if you're wondering how far fatherhood has come since the 1970s, and where it could go.

Great Baby Shower Gift!
This was the gift I brought to a Couples Baby Shower and it was the hit of the evening. I had never been to any kind of a baby shower before. This looks like the right way to include dad's in from the start. I watched the mom-and-dad-to-be share in the excitement and love of their friends. I think this early bonding to the experience will strengthen the family unit. Armin A. Brottand Jennifer Ash are to be congratulated. ... Read more

Product Description
Throughout history, the general perception is that it is man's role to interact with the wider world, providing food, protection, performing heroic acts and journeying to redefine borders and expand our geographic horizons. Private, domestic spaces and acts such as childcare have commonly been seen as female. Yet, as women are increasingly entering and remaining in the workplace, there has been a shift in familial power relations, and as a result, men's role as 'fathers' has changed and become marginalized. Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent. While this transformation has been seen by many scholars as a positive one, men's co-parenting tends to be seen as interdependent with, in opposition to, and at times, less than mothering. Much of the institution of fatherhood still does not embrace fathering as a daily emotional practice that is negotiated, contested and resisted differently in different spaces. This book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers.Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, it discusses the way in which geographies of space can disconnect and disempower fathers, while societal notions marginalize and disassociate them from raising children. It explores how fathering identities are shaped by family and community spaces and aims to move the definition of 'fathering' beyond its definition in opposition to 'mothering'. In doing so, it provides insights into the contradictory nature of father's lives and argues that, rather than moving away from the traditional notions of masculine roles, that the emotional work of fathering in itself is an heroic act. ... Read more

Product Description
'So your child has Asperger Syndrome (AS)? You might have noticed that some of his behavior is a bit different to most kids. That he becomes stressed when faced with change, and he doesn't cope well with criticism or failure. 'This book offers a fun and accessible introduction for the father or carer of a child diagnosed with AS. Intended as a support tool in the initial period after diagnosis, "Fathering Your Special Child" is varied and engaging, and addresses questions or concerns that Dad might have, such as 'what are the characteristics of AS?'. 'How did my child get AS? And 'what happens now?'. Also included are poems, stories, illustrations and activities to help Dad come to terms with and move forward from a diagnosis of AS, and work together with the family to support the child. "Fathering Your Special Child" will be essential reading for fathers and carers of children in the initial period after a diagnosis of AS. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Often Neglected Subject
This book touches on a very important issue that is often neglected in Christian circles, mentoring/spiritual fathering. After all Jesus gave us in the great commission these words: Matthew 28.19a Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. Pastor Bayless Conley a man of integrity and character, one who I model my own life after, conveys keen insights from the Word of God and from his own personal experience from decades of being in ministry on this subject. How many times do we lead someone to Christ or see someone get saved only to result in him or her "going it alone" with nobody there for that individual to assist him or her in his or her walk. In looking at the Biblical pattern of spiritual fathering in depth, we as believers can glean invaluable methods in assisting our younger brothers and sisters in the Lord to "grow" down the right path.

Spiritual Fathering
This is an incredible book regardless if you are a father, brother, mother, sister. This book offers practical insight with real life scenarios. ... Read more

Product Description
When is it the best time to encourage a child's independence? What's the difference between daycare vs. preschool? America's most trusted DadTM answers these questions and hundreds more in this attractive slipcased set including Fathering Your Toddler: A Dad's Guide to the Second and Third Years and Fathering Your School- Age Child: A Dad's Guide to the Wonder Years: 3 to 9.

A perfect companion to the two-volume The Expectant Father and First-Year Father boxed set, Fathering Your Child from the Crib to the Classroom incorporates the author's and other fathers' personal experiences and the advice of top researchers in the field. Both books are illustrated throughout with delightful New Yorker-style cartoons that underscore the joys and woes of parenting.

With wisdom, compassion, and humor, Armin Brott devotes each chapter of Fathering Your Toddler to every three months of the second and third years. Each chapter of the set's second handbook, Fathering Your School-Age Child, guides Dad through the early school years from pre-K to the fourth grade. In each section he outlines the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social changes the child is going through, and examines the emotional and psychological development the father may be experiencing. He also discusses issues that develop between Dad and Mom, as well as matters that involve the whole family.

All chapters contain an activities section called "You and Your Child," in which exercises and issues appropriate to the given age are discussed. Other topics cover the latest research on child development, including brain growth and the use of computers and other technology. Both books include ample advice for dads who are older, single, divorced, in the military, stepfathers, and stay-at-home dads.

The indisputable leader in its field, expectant and new fathers have learned to rely on the guidance and knowledge of Armin Brott. As an essential parenting resource, moms are sure to find fresh insights and the perfect gift for Mom in Fathering Your Child from the Crib to the Classroom boxed set. ... Read more

Product Description
The text is a collection of erotic stories and a novella from the author of "Darkness". Many of these have not been previously published. However, those which have appeared in publications such as 'Mother Jones' and 'Playboy'.Amazon.com Review
Told by fictional immigrants, the tales of arrival and survival spunby Mukherjee's protagonists often paralyze the reader with their realism.They come from Italy, Trinidad, Israel, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Philippinesand elsewhere to build new lives in such places as Ann Arbor, Atlanta,Manhattan and Miami. For all the troubles the immigrants endure, Mukherjee'sportrayal of them as dauntless participants in the American experiment servesto empower them. Even as she's being raped by her employer, Jasmine, ahousekeeper from Trinidad, ponders that she has "no nothing other thanwhat she wanted to invent and tell." The Middleman won the 1988National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Rebuttal
Any reviewer who finds this book boring probably has never read Don Quixote (the world's first novel) let alone much else, and is therefore hardly qualified to comment on the basis of such limited experience. In any case neuro-science tells us that brain-sculpting theta waves predominate during boredom, indicating that learning (whatever one's subjective feeling of lassitude) is in fact taking place.

While this is sometimes a shocking book, only the severely culture-bound and those with no sense of humour will find it boring. I would rate it as an update on Kafka's 'Amerika' - a modern vision of the USA by the latest underclass of arrivals, struggling to carve out their identity in the land of [for them] little peace and [frequently] not much glory.It'll make you laugh and cry - but you'll never see yourself as others see you unless you try .

Peter's review
I recently had to read this book for college.It is probably the worst book that I have ever read.It is so boring all of the stories usually feature a character sitting around not doing anything.There are hardly any events, this book is so slow and boring.I started reading it in June and finished in September and the book is only 197 pages.This was a great waste of my summer.I hate this book.

An Excellent Collection of Diverse Stories
Two of my most prominent reading passions are Asian books and, in particular,those set in India or concerned with the Indian sub- culture (e.g. any of Rohinton Mistry's books, The Namesake, Death of Vishnu, Red Carpet, etc) and collections of short stories.
But what makes this collectionso special isthat Ms. Mukherjee does not focus on her Indian roots, though several stories do concern people of Indian heritage,butcover many diverse cultures -- Italian- Americans, An Iraqi Jew, a Vietnam veteran in Florida and express a wide range of "voices." These storiesare particularly effective in that you find yourself involved in the characters and their circumstances almost instantly. It is as if you had prior knowledge of them as you begin to read any one of the stories.
She also has a literary"trick" of sorts that I really enjoyed in that she will make reference to some little item --almost as a throwaway that was featured in an earlier story in the collection. It is very subtle but a nice little device that I caught on to and served to enhance the experience even more.
And though this collection was published sometime ago I found these wonderful stories still timely.I would highly recommend this collection to anyone who enjoys this genre.
Now on to purchase soem of her other works.

A very good book for indians in America!!
I think this a really good book for Indians or any immigrant group who has recently traveled to the US. It shows the life in the US and how people live here. i realli liked this book ad i suggestest everyone read it even though there is alotta sex related things in it!

BEST INDIAN WRITER BY FAR
You can hardly call her a "Indian women writer" that seems too narrow. She writes boldly and assumes roles that only a cosummate writer can do. Her Middleman story set the stage and then each story just got better. Forget Divakurani whose books are overarated, if you want to read "Indian women writers", then Bharti Mukherjee has no equal in this genre. She is astounding, fresh, and tanscends her category. ... Read more

Product Description
Phillip is a boringly normal man, a computer geek, more functional with logic than with people and their illogical problems. When a sequence of murders takes place in his east London neighborhood he feels linked to them. Unsettling visions possess him, hurling him into a mental breakdown, his decline encouraged by his son, a repellant and menacing presence lurking at the margins of Phillip's life.Simultaneously, the crime detective, the careworn Spencer, yields to a bizarre relationship with his superior officer. Her attitude towards both the case and Spencer verges on the merciless and feeds off the gruesome crimes they are trying to solve.Fathering Sin turns the usual ideas of life and death on their heads. ... Read more

Product Description
Half of all American children are growing up without a father in the home because their parents are divorced, or were never married. Learning to be a father to children who live in a separate household is truly one of the greatest challenges of our day.Fathering From Afar will help you:* Change your perspective on paying child support.* Develop parenting skills and be a more effective dad. * Transform your blended family into a beautiful refuge. * Become a confident single man.* Influence your child(ren) in positive ways. * Increase materially and financially.* Provide for your children in multiple households. * Lift other fathers out of depression and hopelessness. * Get wisdom nuggets for successful single parenting. Get ready to be challenged mentally and spiritually. Expect to be changed completely. If you will apply the practical principles that are in this book, you and your children will benefit in ways you never could have imagined. ... Read more

Product Description
141 pages ... Read more

Product Description
In this book, Paul Newberry writes with passion on the need for real spiritual fathers in the midst of a post-modern, and to a large extent post-Christian, landscape. He ably demonstrates how a true spiritual father behaves and thinks and explores the father-son dynamic in a mentoring relationship. Paul has served in ministry for more than 40 years and is also a gifted writer - which makes this book all the more compelling. It is passionate, authentic, rooted in Scripture, and always practical. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Daughters, published by Dads & Daughters on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 4885 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: At graduation, Dad recalls daughter's lessons.(Fathering Journey)
Author: Rob Okun
Publication: Daughters (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Dads & Daughters
Volume: 9Issue: 3Page: 14(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Daughters, published by Dads & Daughters on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 5561 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Dealing with death.(Fathering Journey)
Author: Hans Eisenbeis
Publication: Daughters (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Dads & Daughters
Volume: 9Issue: 5Page: 14(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Fathering, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7629 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Fathers' motivation for involvement with their children: a self-determination theory perspective.
Author: Genevieve Bouchard
Publication: Fathering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 5Issue: 1Page: 25(17)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Daughters, published by Dads & Daughters on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 5383 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Working through silence.(Fathering Journey)
Author: Ned Solomon
Publication: Daughters (Newsletter)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Dads & Daughters
Volume: 7Issue: 2Page: 14(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more