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Has your partner ever read a parenting manual?

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morningpaper · 13/07/2006 10:39

Has your husband/partner ever read a parenting manual? I've read all of them but DP is EXTREMELY rude about them because he is an arrogant pig.

Has your partner ever read a parenting manual? If so, which one, and what did he think of it?

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LiliLaTigresse · 13/07/2006 10:40

no, and neither have I
we just wing it

Callisto · 13/07/2006 10:41

Men read manuals? No, they always know best don't they? Instructions are only for silly little girls like us who don't know anything.

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morningpaper · 13/07/2006 10:42

Gosh Lili I didn't think it was possible to give birth without memorising the entire works of Ms Gina Ford etc.

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anniemac · 13/07/2006 10:44

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LiliLaTigresse · 13/07/2006 10:46

I only learnt about she who musn't be mentioned on MN
think it was wise of me though

sfxmum · 13/07/2006 10:57

oh yes, he read a book called Fatherhood not really a manual but men talking about own experiences. also dipped in a couple of my books.
but mostly about pregnncy than parenting has read stuff on child development for work years ago too

Marina · 13/07/2006 11:01

Dh has read Libby Purves' books because he likes her journalism anyway and dipped in to "How to talk so kids will listen" at my suggestion when he and ds were going through a tetchy phase.

But most of the time the battle cry is "Can't you ask on Mumsnet"?

brimfull · 13/07/2006 11:15

NO he would guffaw at the suggestion!

aideesmum · 13/07/2006 12:09

I wish he would, maybe then he would get off his arse and do some parenting.

CristinaTheAstonishing · 13/07/2006 12:28

No, but is open to suggestions from me. I got hold of a DVD of Alfie Kohn (I like his "Unconditional parenting") but he couldn't bring himself to watch it as he thought AK looks like Davied Baddiel and how could he take him seriously? He asks me now and again, "what would David Baddiel advise?".

BettySpaghetti · 13/07/2006 12:40

For all those men out there who wouldn't want to be seen with a parenting manual try this .

Its published by Haynes who do all the car maintenance manuals -I've not read it so I don't know if its any good though!

aviatrix · 13/07/2006 21:32

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motherinferior · 13/07/2006 21:34

Nope, but I don't think I have either. Too many gory novels in the world, so little time.

TheLadyVanishes · 13/07/2006 21:37

no but i was given it by his mother (seriously)!!! perhaps he had already read it

TheLadyVanishes · 13/07/2006 21:45

oh and it was a self made folder called 'how to be a good parent'

CristinaTheAstonishing · 13/07/2006 21:58

Aviatrix - i wish DH would read some of them. He's a good Dad but since reading AK some of the things he does really grate me.

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CristinaTheAstonishing · 13/07/2006 22:19

No, I'd got the DVD so he would watch it rather than read the book, then he came up with that infantile excuse...

Piffle · 13/07/2006 22:25

it took dp 7 years to finish Origin of the Species by Darwin
Parenting is another several thousand years on, literary speaking.
The withering looks he gives me when I read anything resembling a help/advice book... And he is sat there reading " The mythical man month" which is bullshit management speak for hotdesking.
Humpf

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