You can finally find the perfect balance between family and work, and enjoy being a Marathon Dad. Every man who struggles to be a good husband, father and professional knows the feeling. You're on the run from the boardroom to the classroom; you have to juggle toys and files, children and clients. And choosing one aspect over another piles guilt upon panic, upon exhaustion. Now, for the first time, here is practical and psychologically sound advice toward combining a career and fatherhood. Psychologist John Evans, himself a Marathon Dad of three, shows that a working father doesn't have to sacrifice what is most important in his career or his home to be successful on both fronts, but he needs to make significant changes in the way he does things. This book is an action plan leading you through that process, step by careful step. Evans shows how to establish realistic priorities, manage time effectively, communicate clearly, and answer questions that plague all working parent: How can I be in two places at once? How can I do my best at two conflicting tasks? How can I love two things equally? The author presents real-world programs and guidance on how to stop an overloaded schedule from claiming emotional fulfillment and intimacy as its casualties--strengthening your relationship with your children and your wife. Can a man be a first-rate, fully committed husband, father and professional, all at the same time? No doubt about it: with dedication, commitment, and prioritizing, Marathon Dads can have the best of all worlds. Here's exactly how its done.
The next giant step in the development of fatherhood!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
In "Marathon Dad" (Avon Books, 1998) John Evans details the next giant step in the devlopment of fatherhood. Much effort has gone into the attempt to better connect men to their emotional lives. And equal energy has been invested in establishing appropriate limits for male behavior. But seldom, if ever, has there been a more detailed and concise attempt to integrate the reality of modern maleness with the passionate and heartfelt viccisitudes of fatherhood. In sparkling prose that reflects an intimate familiarity with the daily dramas of parenting, Evans takes on the ego-wobbling fears at core of modern dad's hesitancy to attach as much importance to diaper changing as slo-pitch softball; fear of confronting mom; fear of the mockery of other men; fear that in this domain, as in so many others, he will not be man enough. Evans provides the foundational gridwork upon which a strong structure of competent fathering can be built. When Freud was asked what mattered in life he responded, "Only two things - love and work." Evans amply demonstrates that the time has passed when the American man can in good conscience sacrifice one for the other. "Marathon Dad - Setting a Pace that Works for Working Fathers" is above all a book about love - a father's love for the most precious work he will ever share; his family.
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