You’ll Be Fine, Mostly: 200 Short Pieces of Honest Advice for Your First Year as a Dad

Nobody hands you a manual. They hand you a baby. Here is the short book for the long nights: 200 pieces of honest, unsentimental advice for the whole first year - from the second line on the test to the first birthday cake. No lectures. No studies. No jokes about minivans. No 300 pages you'll never finish. Just the stuff other fathers only tell you after two beers: - What your actual job is in the delivery room (one thing - and it isn't cutting the cord) - How to survive the first twelve weeks, and the number to write on the wall - The one habit worth more than a year of flowers - Why the expensive stroller and the cheap stroller hold the same baby - How to keep a marriage warm while nobody's sleeping - What to do when your father's sentences come out of your mouth - Becoming the dad your kid lights up for One piece of advice per page. Read it in an afternoon. Keep it for a year. Hand it to the next guy. You don't need to be ready. Nobody is. You just need to be there. Perfect for expecting dads, new fathers, baby showers, and everyone who has ever watched a man carry a car seat like it's made of glass.