How To Be Dad

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MATTERS How To Be Dad (NAPSA)—Whatdoes it mean to be dad? That’s a question every father will have to answer for himself—and an endearing new book mayhelp. In How To Be Dad ($14.95, Stewart, Tabori and Chang), photographer-philosopher Nick Kelsh NICK KELSH “te How To Be Dad captures the bitter and the sweet of being a father. turns his often irreverent and frequently poignant eye to the subject of what it meansto be Dad. This primer for fatherhood begins with the question that gives many a man a sleepless night: just who do you think you are to be someone’s father? Drawing on his ownrelationship with his own father and his experience as a father to his own now-preteen son, Kelsh explores the humor, the remorse and the often bewildering territory that comes with being a dad. The book contains practical tips on fatherhood and important concepts to remember. Although Kelsh puzzles over the question of where our concepts of fatherhood come from, he knowsthat all dads share a common bond: No man can give birth to a child, but no woman cangive a father’s love.