There’s no transition period, no trial run, no supervised training, no e-learning module and no simulation that you can f**k up as many times as you need to until you get it right.
As soon as the midwife hands you your newborn baby, you are responsible for keeping it alive.
Picking up moments after Dear Dory ends, Dear Arlo: Adventures in Dadding continues the story of one dad and his journal as he strives to survive the first year of parenthood, blundering his way through bottle-sterilising, night feeds and some cataclysmic nappy changes – all while a pandemic sweeps across the planet.
WARNING: ONCE AGAIN, THIS BOOK CONTAINS A LOT OF SWEARING
Brilliant, funny, heart warming, raw account of the ups and downs of all the worries and joys of the first year of parenting!
Beautifully written, charming and witty…just an overall fun read!!!
There was nothing to dislike, an amazing writer.
Dear Arlo is the second book in the Adventures in Dadding series, a series of parenting memoirs told from a dad’s point of view, written in the style of a journal. Dear Arlo covers the first year of parenthood from birth to first birthday. Check out Dear Dory (book one in the series) if you’re interested in what pregnancy is like from a soon-to-be first-time dad’s point of view.
November 2019 to November 2020. Yes, Covid-19 features heavily. I talk a lot about what it’s like to be a first-time father during the pandemic.
Like Dear Dory, Dear Arlo is for anyone who’s a parent or a soon-to-be parent, or anyone thinking about becoming a parent – or anyone who fancies having a laugh at my expense.
A fly-on-the-wall insight into what it’s like to raise a child for the first year of its life. The book covers many topics: sleep deprivation, routines, feeding, shared parental leave, the practical aspects of looking after a baby and the emotional journey that fatherhood invariably takes you on – including all the ups and downs. Oh, and a lot of dramatic nappy changes.
Surprisingly, she still hasn’t.
Yes. I swear a lot in this book. But in a totally funny and endearing manner …
I'm a dad who writes abouts dadding. I’m the author of the books, Dear Dory: Journal of a Soon-to-be Dad, Dear Arlo: Adventures in Dadding, Toddler Inc. and The Search for Sanity: Life with a Two-Year-Old. I’m also the creator of the Lessons in Dadding Newsletter.