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Dad Rules: What I Learned from My Girls

Author: Andrew Clover
Publisher: Fig Tree
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2503

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.3

ISBN: 1905490305
EAN: 9781905490301
ASIN: 1905490305

Publication Date: May 29, 2008
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

I was surprised by the pace, and the cartoons, and the cleverness July 15, 2008
One of the funniest, most truthful pieces I ever read was an Andrew Clover Sunday Times column about the sport of Baby Dump - about how parents dump the baby on each other. So I bought Dad Rules for my husband as a Father's Day present. He's a very slow reader. I thought he'd like a series of funny stories, that he could dip into every night. Once he'd started, I figured I could borrow the book back and read it myself. My first surprise was that he read it in one sitting. The second was that he became convulsed with laughter, which I've never seen before. The third was that he cried, twice. The fourth was that he told me he loved me - which he never normally does. The fifth was that he suggested we had more children - which is unthinkable. So then I read the book myself. My first surprise was that the book didn't read like a collection of short funny stories. It's got a speedy narrative to it, and has also got some very charming cartoons. My second surprise was realising how brilliantly clever it is. Every chapter gives you a different Dad Rule: they tell you something Clover has learned, about how to be happy. As you read the book, you feel you're changing with him, becoming wiser, and happier, and more loving. I've now bought five more copies. I'm going to give them to any parent who's recently had a child, and to any men who are scared of having children (I know several), and to anyone who would like to have a laugh. My third surprise, which I only realised a week or so later, was that Dad Rules doesn't contain the Baby Dump piece. I'm hoping Clover is saving it for a sequal. I hope he's getting on with it. I want it as soon as possible.

5 out of 5 stars

If you only buy one book on parenting - buy this one. June 18, 2008
Whether you have children or not you will adore this book. Andrew Clover's genius soars out from every page. Hilarious, honest and humbling, Clover portrays parenting as it should be - fun, frolics and fantasy. I just wish I'd read it before having my three, it puts parenting into perspective. A best seller if ever I saw one - spread the word.

5 out of 5 stars

For all Dads or Dads to be this will make an excellent gift! June 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Loved Clover's mischievous, launch into the priceless joys and perils of fatherhood. He shows you that anything can happen and how you may have to chuck out most of the Dad Rules you grew up with, if parenting is to be the often outrageous, irreverent adventure he suggests. Brazenly honest and often hilarious, you'll love this book.

I've bought two copies already and I predict this will be a bestseller through the grape vine. I'm praying he'll write another - it's also a kick up the arse for the nanny state.

5 out of 5 stars

Laugh out loud and true June 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Loved this book.
Not only did it make me laugh out loud, a lot, but also reminded me about the truths of good parenting - to be happy (...have faith that...in the long run...your kids will learn from how you behave, rather than how you tell them to behave) and spend time 'doing nothing' with your kids. Even my husband put aside his books on Globalisation and Economics to read it from cover to cover, laughing all the while.

5 out of 5 stars

The timing for the arrival was perfect!!! June 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you only read the first line of reviews (like I do usually!) then please buy this book - you will LOVE it.
Andrew CLover writes the weekly column in the Sunday Times Style magazine - that makes me laugh out loud. That's why I bought the book.

It's arrival was perfect timing (i think!). It arrived on the same day that my partner and I found out that we are expecting our first child. I then spent the rest of the day in a state of mild panic, nausea and hungover (didnt realise i was pregnant when drinking cocktails the night before). I think that the author would not be too disapproving.....

I think that the book is written for anyone with a slightly wicked sense of humour. I love the emotional part "saying the word sorry is like getting out kicthen roll". And the absolute honesty that not everything will be perfect. 1). I am more likely to be a slummy mummy, rather than yummy mummy. 2). That parenthood will stretch our every patience and skill, that we should rememeber to have fun with our child, that is what why we have them.

Buy the book ...... my sales pitch is over. Wish me luck.....