[eBook Code] Dadlands (eBook Code, 1st)

Author's note.

Chapter 1. Enjoy The Silence: The calm before the storm.

Chapter 2. The Kick Inside: Baby is here, and its going to be personal.

Chapter 3. Possibly Maybe: The Are You Emotionally Ready? quiz.

Chapter 4. Everybodys Changing: Your flexible ante-natal preparation course, just for dads.

Chapter 5. Treat Her Like A Lady: Life around a pregnant woman.

Chapter 6. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?: Labour: if it isn’t hurting, it isnt working.

Chapter 7. World Shut Your Mouth: Unsolicited advice and where to shove it.

Chapter 8. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams: Things you can no longer do. Its scary.

Chapter 9. Dont Call Me Baby: You need to find a name for this thing.

Chapter 10. Nothing Can Stop Us: The one-week expert.

Chapter 11. One Cool Remove: More bodily fluids than you ever thought possible.

Chapter 12. She Drives Me Crazy: You can leave the house.

Chapter 13. Take Me Out: Trying to get away, into the night.

Chapter 14. Pump Up The Volume: What a pair of lungs.

Chapter 15. Pacific State: Parenting for dummies.

Chapter 16. Eat To The Beat: The mysteries of baby food.

Chapter 17. Moving On Up: Look out hes starting to crawl.

Chapter 18. Walking On Sunshine: And now hes upright and dangerous.

Chapter 19. What Have I Done To Deserve This?: Our simple toddler quiz.

Chapter 20. Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James: Some people you may not like to meet.

Chapter 21. See Emily Play: The joys of toys.

Chapter 22. Dont Look Back In Anger: Can you remember when it was all fields? The perils of nostalgia.

Chapter 23. Moneys Too Tight To Mention: But well mention it anyway.

Chapter 24. If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next: Germs, Calpol and daytime TV.

Chapter 25. Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine): When work intervenes.

Chapter 26. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye: Childcare: its not a sin.

Chapter 27. Wonderful Life: Some salutary tales.

Chapter 28. There She Goes: Tantrums and tears.

Chapter 29. Blue Monday: Wash your mouth out.

Chapter 30. People Get Real: Mess management.

Chapter 3.1 I Predict A Riot: Party games, with optional frontiers.

Chapter 32. Zeroes And Ones: Education, stimulation, appreciation.

Chapter 33. Word Up: Reading, writing and arithmetic.

Chapter 34. Kill Your Television: Why don’t you meet TV halfway?

Chapter 35. Would I Lie To You?: Santa Claus, and other fictions you have to share.

Chapter 36. Solitude Standing: Me-Time.

Chapter 37. A Design For Life: We reach Reception class with a spring in our step dont we?

Chapter 38. I Wanna Be A Winner: Medals for everyone: why it doesnt work.

Chapter 39. Alphabet Street: A final A-Z of parenting.

Chapter 40. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: The Good Parent.

Appendix 1: Is There Something I Should Know?

Appendix 2: Like A Child Again.

Afterword: Put the Message in the Box.