The Ultimate StayAtHome Dad, Shannon Carpenter
The Ultimate StayAtHome Dad, Shannon Carpenter
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The Ultimate Stay-At-Home Dad
Your Essential Manual for Being an Awesome Full-Time Father

Author: Shannon Carpenter

Narrator: Jon Orsini

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/12/2021

Synopsis

A practical guide for modern-day parenting geared towards stay-at-home dads, offering advice on everything from learning to cook and clean with children, to dealing with mental health and relationships and addressing male loneliness, with the easygoing perspective that dads can use their natural talents to parent any way that they choose.

The Ultimate Stay-at-Home Dad manual takes the best advice and wisdom from a dads' group, and puts it into a format to help new stay-at-home fathers. Characterized by actionable and direct advice to fathers, the book takes on parenting from a father's point of view and encourages dads to use their natural talents to become a better parent. That advice is further bolstered by an additional 57 other dads who also give advice. All this advice is framed by the author's personal stories, which help the reader connect with the content and drives the advice home. This is a book that takes on day-to-day parenting, not just as a stay-at-home dad--working fathers could benefit from this book as much as at-home dads.

About The Author

Living near Kansas City, Shannon Carpenter has been a stay-at-home dad since 2008. He is also a humor writer trained through the famous Second City. Whether writing social satire or parenting essays, he is always able to find your funny bone and leave you with a lasting impression. He has done public readings on local NPR affiliate KCUR and teaching through At-Home Dad Network, and the Dad 2.0 national conference which named him one of the funniest dads of 2019. He has also given interviews about his experiences to Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, as well as his local NBC and Fox stations. Redbook has named him as one of America's "Adventure Dads". Finally, Buzzfeed recognized him as one of the funniest women of the week in 2020, which was weird because he is not a woman. However, he is very funny.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on March 27, 2023

This book really did inspire me to become the best dad I can be and really does give great advice on being a stay at home dad. Has some great humor and jokes. Is a must read if you’re a stay at home dad......more

Goodreads review by Jenae on September 23, 2022

This book is obviously geared towards dads, but I was fascinated with the concept of a book specifically written for at-home dads, by a dad who did/does just that. The book did have a lot of good stuff in it and was also hilarious, which made it fun to read. However, I did skip a few chapters that we......more

Goodreads review by Julie on October 29, 2021

I know Shannon from the internet and knew that he was a funny and wise dad, so I was not surprised to find that his book was filled with great advice. As a mom, I also found a lot of great tips and laughter (for one thing, he describes meeting one of his dad friends in romance-novel style prose). I......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 16, 2022

Interesting mix of anecdotes, acknowledgements of biases and prejudices of other people and discrimination against dads, and some how-tos for new dads. If you've been a dad for a while, especially as a primary caregiver, you probably won't get much out of it. If you're a new dad or a new primary care......more

Goodreads review by Nick on September 25, 2023

You need this book, whether you think you do or not. I'm a better parent for having read it, and I think you will be too. Other parenting books might be helpful in figuring out how to help you with your child, but nothing has been as helpful as Shannon's book in regards to figuring out how to help y......more

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