The 15 Best Parenting Books for Dads to read in 2024

Since it was first published several years ago, The Expectant Father has become an indisputable leader in its field. It is an information-packed, month-by-month guide to all the emotional, financial, and yes, even physical changes the father-to-be may experience during his partner's pregnancy.

 

This indispensable book explores the emotional, financial, and even physical changes the father-to-be may experience during his partner's pregnancy. Written in an easy-to-absorb format and filled with sound advice and practical tips for men on such topics as, how to make sense of your conflicting emotions, how pregnancy affects your sex life, and how to start a college fund. 

This volume reassures, commiserates, and informs. It also incorporates the wisdom of top experts in the field, from obstetricians and birth-class instructors to psychologists and sociologists. 

This new edition features the latest research on many topics (and there's a ton of it), from expanding sections on overcoming infertility, in vitro, artificial insemination, and other tech-assisted pregnancies, especially where the dad is not the biological parent, to updating the sections on childbirth to reflect the fact that about 80 percent of deliveries are now done with epidurals and new information on c-sections as well. 

Sections on prenatal communication and education are also being expanded. There will be an overall, top-to-bottom review of the content to make sure all the information is relevant to today's young and senior dads.

If you're a good parent, you probably drive yourself batshit with worry. This book is for you. Addressing concerns from my baby won't poop to my boy likes girl toys to everything costs too much, David Vienna's wise and funny parenting advice will amuse and inform and remind you that (almost) nothing is worth freaking out about. Includes advice from actual experts! Great new dad gift that'll keep him calm, cool, and collected.

The essential handbook for all things first-year father is now fully updated and revised. Not only will new dads get a month-by-month guide to their baby’s development, but men reading The New Father will also learn how they change, grow, and develop over the first twelve months of fatherhood.

In each chapter, Brott focuses on What’s Going On with the Baby; What You’re Going Through; What’s Going On with Your Partner; You and Your Baby; Family Matters; and more. 

The latest research, as well as time-honored wisdom--and humor, thanks to New Yorker cartoons and Brott’s light touch--make The New Father indispensable for the modern father who doesn’t want to miss a moment of his child’s first year.

Empowering fathers to be the best leaders, role models, and life coaches: After all, dads do what the best coaches do—they motivate, mentor, discipline, and love. Author and parenting expert Tom Limbert takes wisdom from John Madden, Vince Lombardi, Tommy Lasorda, Phil Jackson, and many more, and applies it to fatherhood.

Tom Limbert earned a master's degree in education with an emphasis in early childhood development from Mills College in Oakland, after which he co-created a children's play space with three San Francisco Bay Area locations. Tom is a Parent Coach and lives in El Cerrito, California, with his wife and son.

Steve Young is best known for his time on the NFL's San Francisco 49ers. Young was named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL in 1992 and 1994, the MVP of Super Bowl XXIX, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He holds the NFL record for the highest career passer rating and won six NFL passing titles. He has four children.

When the two people who love each other finally step into the marriage hall, the expectation of a new life will come naturally. Before embarking on the "tired and happy" journey of "being a parent", it is very necessary to buy such a guide for prospective fathers.

The author of this book, John Feffer, is the father of three daughters in addition to his two roles as a financial consultant and a writer. He listed all kinds of precautions from preparing for pregnancy and knowing that the newborn baby fell to the ground, to the various physiological characteristics of pregnancy, the various changes of the wife during pregnancy, the choice of various baby products, and the relationship with the family. The handling of the relationship, and even how to blend in between that soft little thing and his wife are all involved.

I remember when I was pregnant, my husband was cautious and at a loss at that time he was still a big boy who didn't know what to do. At that time, I was tormented by morning sickness and went crazy. He jumped in a hurry but was helpless. 

If he had this book by his side, he would at least know how to prepare a few lemons at home when he was in the fruit business. This was when he saw the ten suggestions for morning sickness and remembered the nausea and vomiting he had experienced. It's too late to meet the book.

I only learned long after the child was born. It turns out that the father-to-be is worried, tired, and happy about the child in the belly of his mother. Most women during pregnancy will become delicate and luxurious unconsciously. 

Physical discomfort and fear of childbirth are mixed in the anticipation of a new life, with mixed flavors. People often have this common problem. They are polite and reserved in front of strangers. 

When they are in front of a familiar and kind husband, all kinds of emotions that breed anxiety, act coquettishly, and lose their temper, all come. Sometimes I regret it, but I can't control myself when things happen. The worst thing is that the young couple each gave a childish grievance, and was tortured by these trivial matters for no reason, even the feelings were weakened. 

Such a book not only tells fathers-to-be, why once their little wives, who are usually gentle and watery, become mothers-to-be, can they become a little arrogant and difficult to cope with; it also has a different approach to every kind of small problem. 

Countermeasures your girl suddenly becomes greedy, or uncomfortable looking at her thicker waist, or her belly is so big that she can't turn over and can't breathe? Or will she lose her temper inexplicably? What necessary inspections should I take my wife to? How to choose a comfortable bed, small clothes, blanket, or even diapers for the little guy who is softly crawling? ...Well, this is really "a conversation between buddies".

Yes, this book is teaching us to solve these problems that can't be solved by irritability or depression. 

Finally: a manual for new dads that deciphers the immensely confusing world of fatherhood and gives crucial tips and advice from a man's point of view. No psychobabble, no warm fuzzies -- just a hilarious (and surprisingly practical) military-style guide to surviving and thriving through even the queasiest moments of pregnancy, birth, and babyhood. Seasoned father and master infant tamer Scott Mactavish breaks the Baby Code down and lays it out in straight-up guy speak.

The New Dad's Survival Guide includes declassified information on such topics as Cutting the Cord: The Moment of Truth Feeding and Cleaning the NFU (New Family Unit) Surviving Sleep Deprivation Relieving Stress Without Booze The Great Boob Irony Pee, Poo, Hurl, and Snot: Getting Used to the Bodily Functions Critical Survival Tips Never Before Revealed Sex: Let the Games Begin Again...Finally, Dozens of Essential Terms are Defined, Including Binky, Onesie, Diaper Genie, Passy, and Sippy Cup.

I come from a broken home. I know that pain. I’ve lived it. I’ve suffered through family dysfunction, trauma, abuse, and poverty.

Maybe you have, too.

But I believe you have the power to break those cycles. In First Generation Father, I’ll show you how to find balance within yourself, heal, and build a healthy and happy home for your family. 

This book is brutally honest, entertaining, and insightful—a must-read for anyone raised in a challenging environment who wants to avoid passing down generational scars. 

Whether you’re searching for ways to improve yourself, strengthen your marriage, or practice genuine love, the philosophy shared in these pages will change life for you—and your family—forever.

I came across this fatherhood essay by best-selling author Michael Lewis in a local bookstore. Reading the title and introduction of the book, I feel like it was a very embarrassing experience being manipulated by three children. 

I’m very curious about how such an experienced male writer would write about the daily life of fatherhood.

The best part was the intro, where his 3-year-old daughter came to the rescue of her sister at a Bermuda resort hotel and called motherfucking asshole to a group of brats, and then the adults in the swimming pool all around added social aspects. 

Dad, he quietly retracted into the water like a crocodile, but he felt proud in his heart. Killing me. He also said that after becoming a father, he became much more timid. 

He was afraid of flying and investing in the stock market. He was no longer as open as I once was to helping out people. I don't know, especially when those people need a bath. " I understand this after knowing that their family lives in Berkeley. 

All in all, when there are no children, One has nothing to lose. After having children, One will be afraid that anything will go wrong and there will be such a big responsibility to bear.

What impressed me the most was that he said he wrote this book because he always writes down things immediately after they happen, otherwise even very dramatic plots and feelings will be quickly forgotten. Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. 

But the main reason is "this persistent and disturbing gap between what I was meant to feel overcome with joy. 'it's a boy! you must be so happy!'-I often felt puzzled. (I shouldn't be just as happy if it was a girl?) Expected to feel outraged, I often felt secretly pleased; expected to feel worried, I often felt indifferent. ('It's just a little blood.') 

For a while, I went around feeling a tiny bit guilty all the time, but then I realized that all around me fathers were pretending to do one thing, and feel one way, when in fact they were doing and feeling all sorts of things, and then engaging afterward in t what amounted to an extended cover-up.”

This point is very subtle. People always have various expectations for the parents of newborns, and the reality is often very different from the expectations. For example, when I felt the most torturous fatigue in my life after giving birth, some friends kept telling me that I was still very happy, right? 

Or when I throw it all over my face while eating, someone will tell me, Oh my God, you are going to collapse. I really think it's okay. It is for this reason that I need to write it down more. 

Because I don’t write, I gradually forget about it, and those colorful and subtle feelings are occupied and replaced by other people’s expectations.

But even if he is Michael Lewis, the essays on his personal life are not very exciting. It’s still hard for me to like words that are too trivial and personal.

Five kids later, the comedian whose riffs on everything from Hot Pockets to Jesus have scored millions of hits on YouTube, started to tweet about the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad. 

Those tweets struck such a chord that he soon passed the million followers mark. But it turns out 140 characters are not enough to express all the joys and horrors of life with five kids, so he's now sharing it all in Dad Is Fat.

From new parents to empty nesters to Jim's twenty-something fans, everyone will recognize their own families in these hilarious takes on everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to growing up in a big family ("I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew") to changing diapers in the middle of the night ("like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous") to bedtime (aka "Negotiating with Terrorists").

Dad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.