Dad Rocks
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So, you're gonna be a father. You know you need to buy a bigger house. You need more room for the child. You need more than a one-bedroom apartment. You must have a new crib―you can't use the one your neighbor said you could borrow. And you know you gotta replace your car. It must have six airbags at least. It must come with an AC straight from the manufacturer. What comedian Marcos Piangers found out when he became a young parent is that all these concerns don't make any difference. It's not worth it to pay for the best daycare, if you're the last one picking up your child. It isn't about buying the most expensive gifts, because children really like playing games that are available for free. What the entertaining and emotional stories in Dad's Cool show us is that, deep down, you only need to be there―not physically there while thinking about something else, but REALLY there.
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Dad Rocks - Marcos Piangers
© 2015 Marcos Piangers
Edited by
Gustavo Guertler
Coordinated by
Fernanda Fedrizzi
English Version by
Rafa Lombardino
Copyedited by
Robert Sweeney
Graphic Design by
Celso Orlandin Jr.
eBook Version Edited by
S2 Books
E-ISBN: 978-85-8174-260-1
[2015]
All rights reserved by
EDITORA BELAS-LETRAS LTDA.
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Summary
Cover
Social media
Title page
Credits
Table of contents
Introduction
So, you’re gonna be a dad
Cherish your gifts
Being a dad requires doing some math
Period of adjustment
Payback time
The best parents in the world
Child’s play
An afternoon at the mall
Chocolate
Sweet gift
Diamonds
Excess guilt in the baggage
Are you the nanny for the day?
The terrible twos
My daughter has nothing against gay people
Anita and the Eclair
When i’m old
Analyze this
The stories they tell me
Children’s dictionary – Revised and unabridged edition
Deeply complicated situation
The revolt of the mattress
Is that it?
Our best view
My daughter’s religion
Too late
Nerd pride
Smiles come at a high price nowadays
Grandparents
A dangerous summer
Boys and girls
May it never end
To learn more
MY MOM WAS ON HER WAY TO THE CLINIC
Her friend was driving her, and it was raining a lot that Tuesday. Both of them were nervous—the situation, the storm, the flooded streets. And what they were about to do was illegal. They had crossed the city, taken the avenue that runs along the ocean, and stopped at a red light before going up the hill. They hadn’t talked for several minutes, remaining in complete silence inside the car. In that Volkswagen Beetle, they could only hear the heavy raindrops hitting the sheet metal. My mom was on her way to abort me.
The thing is, my father—I mean, the man who got my mom pregnant—didn’t want to be a father. He had his own life, other priorities. That man had other plans. He wasn’t the man who could be my father. Maybe no man ever could. Maybe my mom wouldn’t be able to raise me all by herself. Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be.
There are different kinds of fathers. Distracted, insecure, dedicated, busy, late, stressed out, agitated, playful. Some fathers can do it all, while others don’t do anything at all. Some fathers are pretty hands-on: they give a bath, they pretend the spoon is an airplane, they read bedtime stories. Some fathers teach their kids how to ride a bike, take them to the ball game, and fall asleep on the couch with their child lying on their chest. Some fathers let their kids to anything. Estranged, affectionate, inconvenient, modern. There are all kinds of fathers.
And there are fathers who decide not to be fathers.
That was the case with the man my mother had fallen in love with. And that is the case of many fathers. Mine isn’t an out-of-the-ordinary story or anything. It’s a very common story, actually. There are men who don’t want to have children. And please tell me, how the heck does that happen? How can a father not want to be a father? He doesn’t know all the things he’s going to miss out on!
There was this lady who once wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut, my favorite author. She wanted to know if, in Mr. Vonnegut’s opinion, people should have children—the author had written about the terror of war and the chronic case of human misconduct. Mr. Vonnegut wrote, ‘Don’t do it!’ That is what I wanted to say. (...). But I replied that, what made being alive almost worthwhile for me—besides music—was the saints I met. They could be almost anywhere.
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This book is dedicated to people who believe in these saints.
I don’t want to sound catastrophic or anything, but bringing a child into this world is an act of faith. The forecast for the future is chaotic: Climate change, overpopulation, pandemics, and increasing urban violence. Having children is believing that the