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What the Heck Were You Expecting?: A Complete Guide for the Perplexed Father
Everything you need to know about fatherhood -- but were afraid to ask!.
Why are all parenting books directed at mommies? Daddies need help, too. In fact, when you think about it, they may need more help than their naturally maternal mates do. They need guidance, comfort, and validation. They probably also need a good night's sleep, and they definitely need a good laugh.
What the Heck Were You Expecting? provides month-by-month counsel for the spit-up covered, the sleep deprived, and the just plain peek-a-booed out, including such subjects your wife might be complaining about (. . . anything she can think of)
What your above-average child may be doing (. . . paying attention to small objects)
What you might be concerned about (. . . the meaning of life)
A couple of things to say to let her know that you're caring, sensitive, and up on the required reading (. . . "Listen to this Statistics show that attendance at work is better among married men with children and spikes even higher among fathers of newborns. Quite a coincidence, huh?")
Thomas Hill, registered father and author of the best-selling What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding , answers every father's questions
ESPN as Edu-tainment
Horsy Knee Burn
Zen and the Art of Spoon-feeding
Basics of Crib Assembly
Nap Time . . . and How to Hide It from Your Boss
. . .among other topics.
Why are all parenting books directed at mommies? Daddies need help, too. In fact, when you think about it, they may need more help than their naturally maternal mates do. They need guidance, comfort, and validation. They probably also need a good night's sleep, and they definitely need a good laugh.
What the Heck Were You Expecting? provides month-by-month counsel for the spit-up covered, the sleep deprived, and the just plain peek-a-booed out, including such subjects your wife might be complaining about (. . . anything she can think of)
What your above-average child may be doing (. . . paying attention to small objects)
What you might be concerned about (. . . the meaning of life)
A couple of things to say to let her know that you're caring, sensitive, and up on the required reading (. . . "Listen to this Statistics show that attendance at work is better among married men with children and spikes even higher among fathers of newborns. Quite a coincidence, huh?")
Thomas Hill, registered father and author of the best-selling What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding , answers every father's questions
ESPN as Edu-tainment
Horsy Knee Burn
Zen and the Art of Spoon-feeding
Basics of Crib Assembly
Nap Time . . . and How to Hide It from Your Boss
. . .among other topics.
144 pages, Paperback
First published June 6, 2000
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December 10, 2025
When I first read this, I thought it was published in the 1950’s. It was published in 2000.
In this book, he assures men that it’s perfectly normal to know and do nothing and teaches men different ways to gaslight and practice Weaponized Incompetence so they never have to learn or do anything.
Wives are mocked the whole time and the men spoken to like they’re stupid and selfish.
In this book, he assures men that it’s perfectly normal to know and do nothing and teaches men different ways to gaslight and practice Weaponized Incompetence so they never have to learn or do anything.
Wives are mocked the whole time and the men spoken to like they’re stupid and selfish.
November 3, 2015
Sticking to the irreverent style of his previous book, What To Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding (Andrews McMeel, 1993), Hill presents a roadmap of a baby's first year. His flippancy permeates every page, and his wit ranges from saucy (seven-month-olds may find reruns of The Jeffersons "somewhat predictable") to droll ("Answering the question `Have I got everything?' is easy; `Do you feel like a pack mule?' If not, you've forgotten something"). Sprinkled throughout is genuinely useful information on real issues like giving a bath. Readers will find these and many other helpful particulars in other child-rearing manuals, such as Arlene Eisenberg's ubiquitous What to Expect the First Year or Jean Marzollo's Fathers and Babies: How Babies Grow and What They Need from You, from Birth to 18 Months.
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