A Good Enough Dad: The True Confessions of an Infant Father

by NigelPlaner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.23

  Sitting in the shower room and wondering how it had become his study, Nigel Planer realized that life as a father was never going to be quite the same again. Gone were the carefree days of leaving out the bread knife, staying out late and sleeping in till ten. Now life was ordered and entirely devoted to the small object of attention - Stanley. This book takes a humorous look at the pleasures and perils of parenthood by a member of the Comic Strip team and TV star of the programme The Young Ones .

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.23

  Television comic actor Nigel Planer describes in hilarious detail what happened, after the arrival of his baby son, to Mr Big in his bachelor flat, who could stay out late, sleep in till noon, leave the dishes dirty and records all over the living-room floor. He also explains that nowadays fatherhood doesn't just mean a change of lifestyle - it requires an attitude . It's no longer enough to wallpaper the nursery, pay the bills and wait in the hospital corridor. Treading a delicate path through the minefield of paternal worries, the book offers the wisdom of experience - the best you can hope to be is a good enough dad.