Future Daddy The Ultimate Guide For First Time Dads

As someone expecting a child with zero real experience with children, Future Daddy is a solid book. I appreciated the practical 8 step guides to things like “this is how to change a diaper” and “this is how to give your child a bath.”

It’s both a strength and weakness that a lot of this advice is aimed at people who are, bluntly, less mature than I am. If you’re in your early 20s, working an unstable job, and not sure how serious things are with your now pregnant girlfriend, yeah, absolutely do everything to get your metaphorical house in order before the child shows up, because you don’t want to mess this up. However, if you’re married, in a career, and have gone to therapy, the advice is probably stuff you’re already doing.

But on the whole, pragmatic, short, and unobjectionable.