"...For some blasted reason the human race thinks that a mother must act like a mother. Sometimes fathers make the best mothers, and if only daddy were permitted to raise the kids you wouldn't have so many neurotic housewives hauled to court for child abuse.

"I say we have to look around, relax and enjoy parenthood and not be so concerned about the storybook ideal home wiht mother at it's helm. Let's try doing what comes naturally. Maybe then we can, because we are relaxed, raise children who are relaxed too, and not candidates for the Big House, the Half-Way House, or the Cashew Nut Ward."
-from The Fun Book of Fatherhood
Former First Lady Barbara Bush
has read Jerry Cammarata's book
"...I try to teach my kids that they are just a part of a big world that was here before they were born and that will be here when they leave...And that they are not alone, but are sharing this world with many living beings, seen and unseen. They must do their best to enjoy life, to learn as much as possible about all the creatures of the world, not just themselves.

"...What I'm getting at is this, Forget about setting world records. Don't pressure your baby. Let it develope at the pace set by its own timeclock, like other animals do. It will get around to the proper stage with its biological clock is good an ready-all you need supply is love."
from The Fun Book of Fatherhood

Little Elizabeth is a meat-eater, like a lion or tiger. Her younger sister, Michelle, is practically a vegetarian, wolfing down salad like an antelope eats hay and grass.
But the Cammaratas don't worry too much about their kids' eating habits. They know that animals instinctively crave what they need to keep them healthy - including human animals.
That's the secret of success in the Cammarata house. Jerry Cammarata and his wife, Margaret, are trying a novel approach to child-rearing and its traumas: they follow the ways of the wild, letting their children grow and develop at their own pace without worry about what other people's children are doing. And their way works: Jerry is know as "Super Pop" to his children and their neightborhood friends.
The Cammarata kids hare having a lot of fun learning to solve their own problems by figuring out how their animal conunteparts might handle the same situations. This makes for some hjilarious times in Jerry and Margaret's house- and it also makes for kids who have a lively interest in their environment and a good basic knowledge of the natural world around them.
The Cammaratas have a lot of other innovative methods to ensure that childhood is a happy time for their children and the parent in their house.
Don't you and your children deserve to enjoy each other and your lives together? The Fun Book of Fatherhood can show you how.

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