The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years, 12-36 Months

This author does a great job of covering all you will need to know in becoming a dad. This and the other books in this series are well written and an easy read. Highly recommended!

I started reading the book after my child was well in his second year and it hit the nail on the head. The author has some good advice for caring for your child and planning for the future.

Armin Brott keeps writing wonderful books that help fathers deal with the challenges of being a parent. So much time and energy is devoted to mothers, it is nice to know that someone realizes that fathers play an essential role in their children's development. As the author of Your Children are Under Attack: How Popular Culture is Destroying Your Kids' Values, and How You Can Protect Them (Sourcebooks, 2005), I especially appreciated how Mr. Brott addresses concerns related to the emerging influence of popular culture on young children, e.g., time in front of computers. More than anything, I enjoy Mr. Brott's compassionate and humorous style of writing. Though rigorously researched, he offers the information in a reader-friendly format and that is accessible and understandable. For any father, this book is a great follow-up to The Expectant Father and The New Father.

I bought this book after reading his book on the First Year. Organized in the same manner as the first, except divided into three month periods instead of one month, I found it again informative and funny. The information about temperaments was especially useful. We found books that became some of my daughter's favorites in the lists that he provides. Also, we are following Mr. Brott's advice about allowances and find that we are all learning. Now that my wife is pregnant again, I'm reading the Expectant Father and I expect I'll be re-reading the First Year and the Toddler Years books.

Since the birth of my nineteen-month-old daughter, I've been reading a lot of books about babies and parenting. By accident, I found this one. Simply put, this is a terrific book. It's a welcome antidote to all those that assume only the mom will be the hands-on parent. It's also full of sound advice and delivers its message in the perfect parenting tone -- patient, amused, astonished -- with a keen understanding of the bewilderment and frustration we all go through. My hat is off to the author for his fine work.I actually gave the book to my husband for father's day, but have been snatching it from him to read myself. We have several friends who are about to have new babies -- I'm planning to give them copies of the author's book covering the first year as shower gifts.For nineteen months I've been reading about parenthood and pointing out this and that passage in some parenting book to my husband. In every case, the book spoke about the mother's role, but the father was at best a shadowy figure who might help out once in a while. Given that my husband and I have had the pleasure of fully co-parenting, we were delighted to find a book focused on being a hands-on dad.Again, bravo to the author for a fine success.