Book summary

Calling having a child "the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit," Bill Cosby expounds on the pleasure and pain of fatherhood in this collection of humorous anecdotes, lending his inimitable warm, slightly bemused style to a vexed question that parents have been asking themselves since time immemorial: why did we do this to ourselves? Using his own family as an example, Cosby counts the ways children can torture their parents, highlighting their irrationality, sudden mood swings, outbreaks of mindless violence against their siblings, expense, and sheer bloody-mindednes. But after all this, he still comes to the conclusion that fatherhood, while it couldn't be exactly called enjoyable, is a vital experience. With Cosby's worldly-wise sense of humor as its main component, the book is less a how-to guide than a series of sympathetic conversations with a man who's seen extensive action in the trenches of kid warfare. Its ultimate message is: we may drive ourselves crazy, but we'll get through this.

Fatherhood

by Cosby, Bill

First Edition

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Book desription: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1986. First Edition. Hard Bound, Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. I am not a psychologist or sociologist. I do have a doctorate in education, but much more important than my doctorate is my delight in kids. I devote part of my professional life to entertaining and educating them. I like children. Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my five. In between these joys and rewards, of course, has come the natural strife of family life, the little tensions and conflicts that are part of trying to bring civilization to children. The more I have talked about such problems, the more I have found that all other parents had the very same ones and are relieved to hear me turning them into laughter. Yes, every parent knows the source of this laughter. Come share more of it with me know." BILL COSBY The red and blue binding is not worn; there is a small darker area on the front where there may have been a label. 178 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bookseller: Nan's Book Shop (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 000678
Format/binding: Hard Bound, Cloth
Book condition: Fine
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Quantity available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385234104
ISBN 13: 9780385234108
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
Place: New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date published: 1986
Keywords: AMERICAN WIT HUMOR MARRIAGE FAMILY LIFE TOPIC PARENTHOOD
Subjects: HUMOR / General;

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