Synopses & Reviews
Review
“An excellent, ‘SWEET’ piece . . . powerful thoughts . . . ” —Susan DeMaggio, Editor of Detroit’s Metro Parent
“I read [it] with pleasure” —David Remnick, Editor in Chief, The New Yorker
Review
“An excellent, ‘SWEET piece . . . powerful thoughts . . . ” —Susan DeMaggio, Editor of Detroits Metro Parent
“I read [it] with pleasure” —David Remnick, Editor in Chief, The New Yorker
If you read just one book of the hundreds of recently published books on “parenthood,” make it Tim Myers “Glad to be Dad.” Why elevate this book to the top? Simply put, its funny, wise, and practical. It celebrates the everyday moments of learning from and with a child and offers an intimate and perceptive view of parenthood—particularly, fatherhood when dads take on a primary caretaking role in the family. The book is not written as an experts treatise on parenting: a manual of “how-to” or “how-not-to-do,” although it accomplishes many of these same outcomes. Fundamentally, Myers is a storyteller sharing his lived experience as a full-time dad during his daughters preschool years. We are transported into Myers life and his relationship with his daughter, wife, and sons through winsome stories lively in dialogue and detail. We follow closely as he makes sense of his experiences with a compelling honesty and sensitivity to the cultural factors that shape ones sense of self and the roles one embodies. Stimulated by a book that affirms the daily opportunities we have for love and growth, we are led to reflect upon our own experiences as parents, as children, as family members.
—Dr. Christine Bachen, specialist on media and family, Communications Dept., Santa Clara University.
Synopsis
After staying home with his two sons for a year and his daughter since her infancy, Tim Myers knows all about being a stay-at-home parent. He knows the most effective cleaning products, which snacks to buy, and has developed a “housemaid’s knee.” He has experienced first hand the profound influence fathers have on their children, along with the challenges of being a stay-at-home parent.
About the Author
Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, and professional storyteller living in Santa Clara, California, where he also teaches at Santa Clara University. Tim earned his master’s in literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has 32 years experience teaching, both at the classroom and university levels. He’s published 10 children’s books (with one on the way) and over 100 poems. His notable works include Dark-Sparkle Tea (Wordsong), Good Babies (Candlewick ‘05), and Basho and the River Stones (Cavendish ’04). He won the 2012 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Fiction.
Table of Contents
1. The Way It Is
2. Two Hours in the Life
3. Your New Stress Chart
4. Homelife: The Benefits to Men
5. Your Child
6. Home Management: Some Dos and Donts
7. Lost Children
8. Your Kids Development: The Important Stuff
9. So You Think Its Easy?
10. Men at Home: Action and Inaction
11. The Male As Domestic Wanna-Be
12. Men and Women: Domestic Differences
13. The Smoking Ruins of Your Sexual-Romantic Life
14. The Male As Domestic Warrior
15. Our First Goodbye