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Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad
Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad
Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad
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Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad

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Written with an engaging mix of humor and brutal honesty, this memoir covers Ben Robertson’s transition from a successful journalist to a stay-at-home dad raising two sons during a five-year period. In his new role, Ben is pushed to the depths of tiredness, frustration, and despair: moments shared equally with the heights of great joy and energy. Offering a unique understanding of the price many parents pay when they stay at home to look after the children, this account also provides insight into the deeper emotional territory of the effects of children on relationships and the changing role of men in families. As it explores sporadic feelings of loneliness and confusion, this heartwarming story tackles child-rearing issues from a man’s perspective, warts and all.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2012
ISBN9780702246784
Hear Me Roar: The Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad

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    I first heard Ben Robertson talking about this book on the radio as I was doing the housework and wrangling my own two children. He said things that rang true, I knew he understood! What is more I was impressed that it was a bloke telling me that he understood. I logged on to fishpond.com.au and bought the book.

    At first I was very disapointed. The opening chapters of the book are mediocre. He talks about stuff that nobody could possible be interested. Why do I care that how he met his wife or what type of shananigans he got up to in his earlier life. I bought the book to read about a man struggling with the role of being a SAHD, not what some random bloke had done when he was a drunk student.

    I was wondering why an editor hadn't kept him on track, but then I saw it was published by the University of Queensland Press, which makes me wonder just how much editing was actually done... Did the publisher care about the content at all? Probably not. At any rate the book is a light read and it didn't take too long to get to the second half where he does actually start talking about what I bought the book to hear... The trials and tribulations of a stay at home parent (in this case a Dad).

    Once the book got into the good stuff I almost got out my highlighter pen, since I was generally breastfeeding a baby while reading I settled for putting little dog ears on all the pages instead. He really did explain very well what makes being a sahm hard... why my husband gets home and I proudly tell him I mopped the bathroom, and explain why he should be proud that I finally managed to do it. Robertson tells story after story of the kind that every single sahm understands because every single sahm has her own book of stories.

    This is one of those hard books to rate. The beginning was 1 star and the second half was a 3.5. I will be lending it to my friends, but only because it is a quick read. I will be telling them to 'skip through the first bit'.

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