About the Book

They’re all part of a new attitude called Dadditude - born in this rollicking, fresh take on the foibles, pratfalls, and occasional successes of being a dad.

When Phil Lerman, about to turn 50, quits his job as the producer of one of the longest-running (and most macho) network TV shows ever, he believes a lifetime of management experience will carry him through his new job of full-time fatherhood. He’s sure that his years of controlling a wild pack of roving producers have prepared him to conquer the world of one small boy in a Beatles haircut.

Lerman soon learns how easily a three-year-old can take that belief and stuff cheese balls in its ear.
With a brain filled with hyperlinks in hyperdrive, Lerman draws parenting lessons from all the wrong places - Mad Magazine, Samsonite commercials, and sixties song lyrics - but comes up with the right answer: nothing gets you through the sleeplessness, the mania, the tears and fears of parenthood like a good laugh. Especially at your own, neurotic, desperately-striving-to-be-a-good-parent self.

By turns poignant and hilarious, Lerman’s journey from the control room to the playroom (and, ultimately, from obsessing about control to accepting the natural chaos of things) offers a lesson for the modern age: that somewhere between strict discipline and unconditional love, lies… Dadditude.

And that in the process of losing your mind, you can find your heart.

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