Reviewed by: Chris Singer
About the authors:
Founded in 2004 by Troy Lanier, Clay Nichols and Brad Powell, DadLabs aims to be the voice of the new fatherhood. The trio brings more than 30 years of teaching and hands on fatherhood experience, as well as professional filmmaking and writing experience. Troy Lanier and Clay Nichols are accomplished authors and were named to the Austin Chronicle Best of 2005 for their book “Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling off Your Shorts.” The company’s first DVD, DueDads: The Man’s Survival Guide to Pregnancy won a 27th annual Bronze Telly Award.
About the book:
So the baby’s butt is redder than a baboon’s and he’s screaming like a crazed hockey fan. What’s a new father supposed to do? Since 2007, more than 2 million men have turned to DadLabs for the answers. Home to the Internet’s finest weekly video program about modern fatherhood, DadLabs.com is the brainchild of four regular guys in Austin, Texas and now they’ve compiled the best of their advice into a book.
In DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood, readers will learn:
* How to keep the baby alive until the wife gets home
* That washing bottles will not make your balls fall off
* Things not to say during birthing (“You’re sure it’s mine, right?”)
* Top-secret delivery room tips (No. 1: Bring change for the snack machine)
* Why sex is overrated (and other lies fathers tell themselves)
* Why other parents’ children are inferior to yours
Full of guy-friendly advice, DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood proves that being a man with a sense of humor and being a skillful parent are not mutually exclusive. Check out the book trailer on Amazon.
My take on the book:
Every month or so I go speak to a class of expectant fathers who are taking a newborn care class through the local Expectant Parents Organization. Since I discovered this book by Dad Labs, it’s become the main resource I share with the expectant dads. I often use a form of the Dad Labs’ tag line in my introduction to the dads: “I [instead of We] screwed up so you don’t have to.”
The Dad Labs Guide To Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One is an excellent simply resource because it is written for dads by dads. Out of all the books geared towards expecta