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Find out moreMark Woods started his writing career as a news journalist for the UK's national news agency the Press Association. After covering everything from the war in Kosovo to a pair of brave pigs escaping from an abattoir, a move into television followed where he attempted to make ONdigital and then ITV Digital a huge success. The enormous corporate disaster that followed allowed Mark to sensibly reconcentrate on writing and he joined Comic Relief. The birth of his first son inspired Mark to write the best selling Pregnancy for Men which has since gone on to become an international hit too. Babies and Toddlers for Men and Planet Parent have followed and Mark continues to be anything but a parenting expert. Mark lives with his wife Sarah and their three Children in South West London.
Babies & Toddlers for Men offers a fantastic ‘hands-on’ approach to parenthood, written by a journalist dad, covering the good, the bad and the demanding. This practical guide takes new dads on an emotional rollercoaster journey, from the moment of their baby’s birth to having an inquisitive chatty toddler roaming around. Through nappies, sleep deprivation and feeding choices to teething, crawling and walking, playing and first aid, there isn’t much (if anything) this book doesn’t cover. While this is a ‘man’s guide’ to fatherhood, it’s also about (and for) the whole family – dealing with baby while also supporting (and understanding) their partner’s needs. The book includes ‘Words from your fellow fathers’, offering not just practical tips but also honest comments about dads’ emotions at different stages of their child’s life. The book is written in a fun, chatty and straight-talking style. It’s split into sections according to the baby’s age, so Months 0-3, Months 4-6, Months 7-9 and so on, which makes it very easy to navigate. The factual content is based on scientific research and official guidance (references are listed at the end of the book, along with a bibliography and index). At the end of each chapter, there’s ‘Your progress report’, which summarises how baby has developed and how mum and dad are likely to be feeling too. The book emphasises (very well) that there’s no ‘single approach’ to parenthood and also that it’s normal for dads to feel overwhelmed and exhausted at times. I really love this book and wish it had been around when my two teenagers were born.
The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.
Does God have a specific plan for your life? Does God want to heal us all? This book started as one article, looking at whether God has a plan for our lives. But then the idea grew and the author wondered whether there were other things that deserve a hard look. 'What about forgiveness, evangelism, and spiritual growth? What about Genesis? Are we missing some of the richness and depth of our faith because we don't like to ask the questions we ought to ask? Are there different ways of thinking about old truths that might challenge and inspire us? Are there, even, old truths that turn out not to be true after all?' In this biblically faithful book, Mark Woods takes a forensic look at some favourite evangelical assumptions and asks whether they are built on strong Scriptural foundations. Is the truth deeper, more radical and more dangerous?
Becoming a father is a moment in a man's life like no other. The love, the pride, the joy and occasionally the fear stirred up inside us by the complex little being that moves into our home and our relationship takes some serious getting used to. And then there's the really tough stuff like putting up a travel cot and installing a car seat. Despite all this though we are often given more advice when we buy a phone than when we become a Dad...until now. This is everything a father needs to know from newborn to nursery, this is Babies and Toddlers for Men. Written by Mark Woods, author of the best selling Pregnancy for Men and proud father of two, this utterly readable guide tells you how it is in a frank and funny way that will leave you educated and energised to take on the next amazing stage of being a Dad.
Becoming a father is a moment in a man's life like no other. The love, the pride, the joy and occasionally the fear stirred up inside us by the complex little being that moves into our home and our relationship takes some serious getting used to. And then there's the really tough stuff like putting up a travel cot and installing a car seat. Despite all this though we are often given more advice when we buy a phone than when we become a Dad...until now. This is everything a father needs to know from newborn to nursery, this is Babies and Toddlers for Men. Written by Mark Woods, author of the best selling Pregnancy for Men and proud father of two, this utterly readable guide tells you how it is in a frank and funny way that will leave you educated and energised to take on the next amazing stage of being a Dad.
Babies & Toddlers for Men offers a fantastic ‘hands-on’ approach to parenthood, written by a journalist dad, covering the good, the bad and the demanding. This practical guide takes new dads on an emotional rollercoaster journey, from the moment of their baby’s birth to having an inquisitive chatty toddler roaming around. Through nappies, sleep deprivation and feeding choices to teething, crawling and walking, playing and first aid, there isn’t much (if anything) this book doesn’t cover. While this is a ‘man’s guide’ to fatherhood, it’s also about (and for) the whole family – dealing with baby while also supporting (and understanding) their partner’s needs. The book includes ‘Words from your fellow fathers’, offering not just practical tips but also honest comments about dads’ emotions at different stages of their child’s life. The book is written in a fun, chatty and straight-talking style. It’s split into sections according to the baby’s age, so Months 0-3, Months 4-6, Months 7-9 and so on, which makes it very easy to navigate. The factual content is based on scientific research and official guidance (references are listed at the end of the book, along with a bibliography and index). At the end of each chapter, there’s ‘Your progress report’, which summarises how baby has developed and how mum and dad are likely to be feeling too. The book emphasises (very well) that there’s no ‘single approach’ to parenthood and also that it’s normal for dads to feel overwhelmed and exhausted at times. I really love this book and wish it had been around when my two teenagers were born.
Having a baby is a big deal. Such a big deal in fact that something like 3 billion books have been written to give women the advice and support they need to get through it safe and sound. This isn't one of them however. The book you are holding is a rare and precious thing; a comprehensive and utterly honest guide designed to help men navigate the choppy waters of pregnancy - waters that will eventually break all over the back seat of your car and usher in the most extraordinary event of your life, witnessing the birth of your child. Taking the whole thing a month at a time and using the experiences of scores of first time Dads, this is a frank, factual and funny journey charting what men need to know, need to do and need to avoid like the absolute plague when their partners are carrying a baby.
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