Stephen Amidon
Superdad
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son
By Michael Chabon
4th Estate 306pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
Being a dad is not what it used to be. Sometime between the era when my father raised children and my own ongoing efforts, parenting became self-conscious. What had been a seat-of-the-pants operation in the days of Kennedy and Nixon turned into a thoroughly analysed undertaking by the time of Clinton and the Bushes. Although I would have once maintained that the newer approach is superior, I now wonder if there was not a good deal of wisdom in my father’s hands-off approach.
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