Daddy Cool

by Hugh O'Neill

Provides indispensable advice for fashionable fathers who want to look good while parenting

132 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1988

Reviews

[Richard]

Fatherhood. You get no training for it at all. Everyone, including you, is more concerned about the Mother (as well you should be!).

You get to fatherhood by being cool. Everyone knows that.

And being cool, whilst not easy, at least comes with a manual. Watch any of those manly heroes (James Dean, Eastwood, Springsteen, Bogart, etc).

But once the little sproglet comes into being you find that being cool seems, impossible. As the book says 'Cool is the open road to wherever it leads; Daddy is the station wagon to the swap meet.'

Herein lies 132 pages of the most indispensable advice you will not hear anywhere else about how to be Cool and Daddy, at the same time.

Yes there is even a chapter on sex with Mom!

[Chloe A-L]

I had this book as a kid, I must have gotten a 25 cent copy at a savers or something in my weekly run, and i fucking DEVOURED this thing. I read it literally to pieces. The last time i ever remember seeing it, it was less a book and more a stack of papers. (I assume this was shortly before one of my parents threw it out.) Reading it as an adult, on a whim, i cannot for the life of me figure out what I found so fascinating about this terribly boring book.