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Keeping the Baby Alive till Your Wife Gets Home: The Tough New `How-To' for 21st-Century Dads
 
 
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Keeping the Baby Alive till Your Wife Gets Home: The Tough New `How-To' for 21st-Century Dads (Paperback)

by Walter Roark (Author) "All Quiet on the Set...a dream beginning: You're a happy new father with wife and offspring safe and secure on their first magical night home..." (more)
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A tongue-in-cheek peek at modern parenting from a father’s point of view, this spoof is targeted at today’s career-minded mom and dad team. Breezy, irreverent humor escorts dads through basic topics such as home-from-the-hospital adjustments, post-partum dos and don’ts, diaper changing, feeding, difficult infant behavior, child-care choices, and the bustle of the pretoddler stage. Lightening up the serious business of being a 21st-century father, this book teaches dads that they don’t have to be perfect and shows them how to enjoy the different stages of a baby’s life.


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Walter Roark is the author of two award-winning CD-ROMs, Life’s Greatest Mysteries and Nine Month Miracle. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Gift Book for Dads, Trust Me, May 16 2004
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I loved this book because, as a new father learning my trade (so to speak) it gave me a break from all the pressure-packed, heavy advice books. With Keeping the Baby Alive, I could relax and laugh at the many ironies that come with child care. I also liked the book because I felt like it was written for me, an innocent young father who wants to do my best, but who also feels a little intimidated about infant care. The message here is 1) you don't have to be perfect and 2) you can actually have fun taking care of kids if you don't get too crazy and uptight about it. Besides, the book is just plain funny.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing but not as helpful as hoped, May 2 2004
By Jill Papsdorf (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book for my husband just after the birth of our son. While it is indeed very amusing, we found the advice and information to be less helpful than we hoped. I would recommend instead The Joy of Fatherhood which outlines what to expect for each month of the first year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars just like life, only funnier!, Mar 3 2004
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Mr. Roark hits the nail on the head with this very funny, very real book. Any new Dad will be able to relate to "Keeping the Baby Alive...' It took me several years to realize that my husband was REALLY proud of himself whenever he took care of the kids - he thought he had done his job well---he had kept them alive until I got home! Buy this book as a gift for any new father - or any father, for that matter!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not for those with no sense of humor
This book is really, really funny because it pokes fun at every facet of baby care, all from a man's point of view. Read more
Published on Mar 2 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for a few laughs
I bought this book for my fiance b/c we are hoping to be parents this year. It got such great reviews I wanted to read it myself first. Read more
Published on Feb 27 2004 by C. Carpenter

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
I bought this book on a lark as it was sitting at the checkout counter of my local bookstore. Nevertheless, I was pleased to find how funny and entertaining it is, and I did learn... Read more
Published on Jan 31 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A book even a mother can love
Roark's Keeping the Baby Alive is hysterically funny. Dads who don't know about the in's and out's of such fun events as diaper changing need this book. Read more
Published on Jun 6 2001 by Cynthia Webb

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun light reading...
Hey Dads, after you've finished your latest physics book or Grisham novel, settle in for some humorous light reading about your primary profession. Read more
Published on May 3 2001 by Michael B. Gleason

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun light reading...
Hey Dads, after you've finished your latest physics book or Grisham novel, settle in for some humorous light reading about your primary profession. Read more
Published on May 3 2001 by Michael B. Gleason

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun light reading...
Hey Dads, after you've finished your latest physics book or Grisham novel, settle in for some humorous light reading about your primary profession. Read more
Published on May 3 2001 by Michael B. Gleason

5.0 out of 5 stars Great look at the humorous side of having kids....from a Dad
I rarely laugh out loud when I read humor...this book was the exception. I'm sitting and reading this book on the beach howling, and I look over at my wife and she's looking at me... Read more
Published on Mar 9 2001 by Gregory Swayne

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