This book reads like a "men's right's manual." Rather than reading a book with stories about fatherhood, I found myself reading a book about the two author's experiences as fathers, and their histories with their own fathers. For every five chapters about how essential men are to children's lives, there's a cute anecdote. This book was far from touching, moving, or heart warming. I was seriously mislead by the editorial comments. I found this book while looking for a "father" counterpart to the wildly successful "Operating Instructions" by Annie Lamott. What I found was a book by two men who tooted their own horns as fathers. Besides the obviously lacking storyline, the constant editorial mistakes (spelling, grammar, etc.) made it difficult to muddle through. Do yourself a favor, skip this book and move on to something better.