Marcus Fenley

I am the father of three sons, all now adults, and I got a great deal of this wrong the first time. That is most of my qualification. The rest is twenty years of paying close attention to what changed things in our house and what only made me feel like I had done something.

Each book is built around one mechanism and one plain idea: you cannot make a child care, start, calm down or take responsibility, but you can change your own half of the interaction, and that turns out to be enough more often than anyone tells you.

I do not cite researchers I have not read, and I do not resolve every story into a lesson, because real evenings do not work that way. The chapters are short and assume a reader who is tired.