My Dad Is a B***Head

You may be shocked by this title. Truthfully, it shocks me. The good news is that it isn’t mine. The bad news is that it’s the title of a book published in 2014. A father wrote the book for his son.

On the book’s dedication page, you find it dedicated to said author’s adoring family.

B***head.

How crude. How vulgar. How stupid.

I can think of some lessons I’d like to teach young children, but that their father is a butthead is not one of them.

“Parent’s should treat their children as neither equals nor fools.”

— John Rosemond

THE MORAL

The moral of this father’s story is that no matter how rude your child is to you, no matter how disrespectful he is towards you, he loves you.

That’s the moral as far as I could make out. But truthfully, I’m not even sure there was a moral to the story.

Why am I devoting time to a book that deserves to be thrown on a dung-heap?

You, dear reader, unlike many parents, probably have enough sense not to pick up a copy of such a vulgar book to read to your child, but you may not know what does constitute a good book.

It’s not your fault, either. Our great books for children have been replaced by…