Dad Rules: Notes on Fatherhood, the World's Best Job

by Michael Milligan, Tom Lynch

Overview

Following on the heels of his successful book on grandfatherhood (Grandpa Rules), veteran comedy writer Michael Milligan set his sights on the joys and stresses of fatherhood. A response to all those dad books full of empty platitudes and hokey lessons, Dad Rules is a book for the hip dad who can use a laugh (if not a drink) at the end of another trying day with his kids. A perfect gift for the dads in your life, this book is laugh-out-loud funny and offers useful insights and tips on how to embrace the world’s greatest job.

It includes:

• Tips on what to really expect when you’re expecting
• How to survive on two hours of sleep a night
• The joys of dropping the kids off at Grandma’s
• How to babysit and watch football at the same time
• And much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626369399
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Michael Milligan has been a comedy writer for more than thirty years, with credits including Good Times, Maude, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and Dear John. He is also the author of Grandpa Rules, and, with his wife, Jill, Grandma Rules and Mom Rules. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Tom Lynch held many positions throughout this life, including that of a story analyst and helicopter pilot. Yet some of his most dangerous and exciting assignments took place at the wheel of the family van as an operational dad under the command of his wife, Cookie. Now retired, Tom and Cookie went on the road and traveled awhile before settling in a retirement community near Palm Springs. He resides in Indio, California.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Game On! 3

2 From Peter Pan to Pregnancy Suit 11

3 Round, Round, Round, Round, I Get Around (Or at Least I Used To) 21

4 The Theory of Relativity 31

5 Teach Your Children Well 39

6 Let's Talk about Sex 49

7 The Seven-Year Glitch 59

8 Let's Do It Again 71

9 Angels to Demons: The Tween and Teen Years 77

10 Malcontent in the Middle 81

11 The High School Years 87

12 Driving Miss (or Mister) Crazy 91

13 Class Action 97

14 Dancing with Wolves 103

15 Going ... Going ... Gone! 111

16 Creative Embarrassment 117

17 Get Back, on the Horse...But No Galloping! 127

18 Gentlemen, Start Your (Search) Engines 133

19 May to December and Back Again 137

20 Fire Up the Blender 143

Acknowledgments 149

About the Authors 150