Fatherhood

The Designated Daughter
The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood
by Jesse Green
'Mommy,' he said. In the summer after his third birthday, Erez started asking for his mother, or at any rate for something he referred to by that name. 'I'm going outside to find Mommy,' he informed us one day, quite jauntily, as if he were announcing

Strange Fruit
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? : The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
by Jonetta Rose Barras
We faced the Gordon Plaza Apartment complex on St. Ferdinand Street. A rust-colored, four-inch band of wood raced around the middle of the mustard-painted buildings, reminding me of the dirty ring my two sisters and I left inside the silver metal tub when

The Moment of Truth: Your Transformation Into a Father-to-Be
Do I Look Like a Daddy to You? A Survival Guide for First-Time Fathers
by Quinton Skinner
Maybe you and your partner were planning to have a child together, maybe you weren't. Some of us are somewhere in between, ready to have a baby but simply letting nature take its course. Whatever you intended, the test has come back and the results are in

Building a Father-Daughter Relationship
Dads and Daughters : How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She's Growing Up So Fast
by Joe Kelly
Perhaps every father should be issued a football mouthguard when his daughter is born, since he's liable to spend the next few decades biting his tongue. When my daughter Nia was thirteen, she announced that she was going to dye her hair orange.

My Son
Raising Cole : Developing Life's Greatest Relationship, Embracing Life's Greatest Tragedy: A Father's Story
by Marc Pittman, Mark Wangrin
Marc Pittman was raised rough. He was a builder by trade; he got in bar fights; he wrestled bears. But that didn't stop him from becoming the kind of father he had always wanted. People said he was lucky, but Marc Pittman knew the truth: he worked hard

Chapter One
Becoming a Father: The Real Work of a Man's Soul
by John L. Hart, Ph.D.
In an age when men's roles in the lives of their children are under fire, the book may well become the touchstone to a new wave of hands-on, emotionally present, conscious fathering. John Hart focuses on the synergistic tenets that a father is crucial

Part 1
A Father Is a Gift
by Joanne Davis
Father. Take a minute, if you will, and meditate on the word. Let it filter through your mind and sink into your consciousness. If the experience unleashes a flood of images, don't be surprised. Going back to the time that Adam raised Cain and Abel

What We're Up Against
Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
by Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld, Ph.D.
No training. Dozens of schools offer M.B.A.'s, but there's no Master of Fatherly Administration. The fact is, we can't prepare for having kids the way many of us prepared for our professional careers. And make no mistake: fathering is tricky work

Think fast! Now, think faster!
Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
by Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld, Ph.D.
The timing is painful. We're trying not to blow the critical years of our kids' childhoods, while at the same time struggling to build careers in the midst of one of the most challenging business climates ever. Is it any wonder that many business dads

The Challenge
Business Dad : How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)
by Tom Hirschfeld, Julie Hirschfeld, Ph.D.
As businessmen and as fathers, we face nowadays what is known in business as a high-class problem: an explosion of opportunity without a single extra hour in the day. Think of how life has changed since 1960.

Preparations
The New Dad's Survival Guide : Man-to-Man Advice for First-Time Fathers
by Scott Mactavish
SO YOU'RE GOING TO BE A DAD. Take it from me, there's nothing like it, bro. Nothing. Sure, you'll have a few bumps in the road, but just wait until you hold your son or see your daughter smile at you for the first time.

How to be a be a better father to all my children?
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I am a 44 year old father of 3 beautiful girls (14,12, & 10). I went for a Vasectomy 2 years ago, however my wife now is 8 weeks pregnant (by me, my doctor's theory is that my vasectomy reconnected). I SHOULD be happy, I SHOULD be laughing, I should

To My Fellow Parents
Cursed by a Happy Childhood : Tales of Growing Up, Then and Now
by Carl Lennertz
This book began as a diary I started to keep for my 11-year old daughter. She was two years away from a birthday with teen in it, so I felt the time was right to put down on paper some thoughts and advice that might be of use to her in the future.

Fatherhood is Both a Challenge and a Gift

I perceived my dad as strict, uncompromising and demanding. I was afraid of him. Though I always knew that I was loved, it felt conditional. Dad's generation believed that well-behaved, unspoken kids were an indication of how good their parenting skills