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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm looking for some good reading on how to, eventually, best help be a step parent to my partner's children and NEARLY ALL books are geared toward the woman's perspective as though men don't want to be a strong teacher and develop these kids into healthy adults. Ugh!

Thanks for listening to my rant.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Do a Google search for books for stepdads instead of books for stepmoms maybe you'll have better search results because I just did it and I found a bunch of books.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We had a baby recently and I tried to read a few books geared towards men to be better prepared.

The bar for men is very, very low. It’s a tripping hazard.

The guidance in all of them was a pathetic mix of “have you tried basic empathy?” and idiotic sports metaphors. It was baffling. Are most men actually like stupid sitcom dads from the 90s?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yes! I got pregnant and the online advice for me was a million pages long of avoid this, do that, research everything, do 20 hours a day worth of stuff, but get enough sleep! Don't stress or it will hurt the baby!

The online advice for him literally introduced empathy as if it were a concept he had never heard of before. The bar is below the floor. We just had him research as if he was going to be a mom.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The vast majority of men would never touch a self-help book. It's simply a matter of sizing the potential audience. Writing a book that ends up unread makes no sense.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hence the rant. It’s sad that men don’t seek to better themselves at the same rate.

Kudos to OP for looking to be the best step-dad he can be!

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