Dad You Suck: And other things my children tell me

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Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.
For Tim Dowling, fatherhood has sometimes felt like two decades of lessons learned through failure.

1. Dont give your children sugary drinks and expect them to be as sweet. You could end up with a chopstick in your earhole.

2. There is no reason holidays should be thought of as relaxing. Consider them an opportunity to be shrieked at in different climates.

3. Lets not tell mum about this is not legally binding. It never has been. Youre only trying to make yourself feel better.

Drawing on what actually feels like two lifetimes of experience, Dad You Suck is a hilarious account of the joy of fatherhood, and the subtle art of transforming your childrens insults into a reason for being.

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Praise for HOW TO BE A HUSBAND:

You'll whoosh through this book with cheery hoots of laughter Dowling's a very fresh and smart writer There's a proper laugh every couple of pages But as well as being funny, which he has to be, Dowling is sometimes plangent and he is more often than not wise there's pleasure and treasure here Sam Leith, Guardian

There's no denying [HOW TO BE A HUSBANDs] enormous readability Dowling's frequently hilarious Bildungsroman, detailing his evolution from feckless layabout to equally feckless husband and father, offers wisdom, insight and laugh-out-loud one-liners in equal measure Gloriously entertaining Alexander Larman, Observer

This isnt a self-help book What [Dowling] has done, effectively, is invent an entirely new genre in literature: that of the self-hinder book A rare delight. Spectator

Less a self-help than a self-hinder book, the Guardian columnists account of how he has coped with the challenges of matrimony (answer: badly) should really be called How Not To Be a Husband. Thomas Hodgkinson, Spectator, Books of the Year

A charming book that claims erroneously, not to be a self-help guide. Ive read it. My wife has read it. Divorce has been postponed, at least to Boxing Day. Sunday Times, Books of the Year

A charming book Sunday Times

Author Bio

Journalist Tim Dowling was born in Connecticut and moved to the UK at the age of 29. He is the author of 4 books (so far) including a novel, The Giles Wareing Haters' Club. For the last five and a half years his popular weekly Guardian column has charted the ups and downs of family life, and his largely unsuccessful attempts to be recognised as a competent father and husband, combining self-deprecating humour with a perverse optimism.