Here, Knausgård delivers a large collection of essays—because he doesn’t do short, simple, or sweet—separated by the seasons, penned for his soon-to-be born child.

It doesn't tell you what to think, it equips you to think differently as you plunge into the new world of fatherhood. The book provides manifold empirical and ethnographic insights into the ways in which men around the globe think of and enact fatherhood and into how different historical, national, global, societal and cultural conditions shape men’s possibilities of becoming and being fathers. The book deals mostly with the relationship between Edmund and his religious father after the death of his mother. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve. It's about race and class, the economy, culture, immigration and the danger of the us-versus-them mentality.New dads are particularly vulnerable as financial and work pressures coupled with a huge life change can have a significant impact.

I’ve read the book from cover to cover in couple of days and it’s filled with No-BS advice, guides and tips. Here Gilmour shows a tender side to dealing with a troubled child as he tries to break down the barriers between him and his son through art. Photograph: Jamie Garbutt/Getty Images View image in fullscreen ‘As in life, so in literature; there is no essence of fatherhood. In 2015, the ONS found that men were spending 39% of the time that women spent on childcare, compared to 64% during the first lockdown in 2020. There has been some positive progress on the collective role of dads in the UK, with fathers taking on more caring responsibilities than ever before.

In Whitney’s second hybrid memoir, they look at the father figures of their childhood and early life alongside gender roles and queer theory, against the backdrop of a storm-chasing tour in North America.

Trusted by millions of fathers, the New York Times-bestselling guide for dads-to-be is back in a fully revised and updated fourth edition. Never before have a group of men come together to bare their souls and speak so openly and honestly about their fatherhood experiences.Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. It not only tells us about the intimate sphere of men’s lives as fathers and how they interact with their children, partners, hoped for and lost children, but also how studying fatherhood offers a fascinating window on broader social change across different societies. Caleb Klaces is the author of Bottled Air (2013), which won the Melita Hume Prize and an Eric Gregory Award, and two chapbooks, All Safe All Well (2011) and Modern Version (2018).

Guidance for building a strong foundation with your partner before your kid arrives, making future parenting choices easier and less confusing.Being a dad means embracing your authentic self, welcoming those imperfect and unplanned moments, and always allowing space for love and understanding, especially as you practice self-care and reflect on your inner workings. He also considers what our parents mean to us in juxtaposition with what everyone else thinks of them. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind published an audio cassette edition of Fatherhood with narration by Bob Askey. Not literally of course, but you’ll be in the middle of nine months of flying hormones, back rubs, and excitement, anticipation and nervousness the like of which you’ve never experienced before.