So, how does a music executive decide to write a fathering book?
TS: This book is my reaction to the world around me and my own reactions to what I saw working and not working in raising my own sons… I’m not a childhood expert, I’m a father and I found some things worked great and I made plenty of mistakes, so I want to share what I’ve learned with other fathers. Becoming a parent is a really crazy thing; there’s no training for it really. An analogy I think of is that when you become a dad it’s like someone called and told you just became the manager of the Yankees. And you think, “Wow! The Yankees! I have no idea what I’m doing, but this is great!” So you figure out what works and what doesn’t and you keep notes. If a certain pitcher works out well, you keep tabs on that; if a certain rotation works poorly, you keep notes on that… that’s basically what this book is. I also wrote the book in a way that it’s not just for fathers. It’s a meant as a parenting book so that, say, if you thought your spouse was doing something wrong, you could share
