Jennifer's Reviews > Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

Funny, emotional, and incredibly heartfelt. This collection of personal essays is a winner. It consists of a father's advice to his infant son about things both random and sincere.

The chapters are themed with the following topics:

-What you need to know about motion sensitive bathroom lights
-What you need to know about IKEA
-What you need to know about soccer
-What you need to know about stuff
-What you need to know about being a man
-What you need to know about God and airports
-What you need to know about what happened to the singing plastic giraffe
-What you need to know about why that Felicia girl's mother hates me
-What you need to know about good and evil
-What you need to know about starting a band
-What you need to know about love
-What you need to know about when I hold your hand a little too tight

I absolutely loved it.

My favorite quote:
"I can tell you I love you, but I don't know if you understand what that really means. Because I don't love you the way I love bacon or Manchester United or the second season of The West Wing. This isn't that kind of love. I mean that I love you as though you were a runaway freight train thundering through every cell in my body. I mean that this love didn't grow on me, it knocked me over. It's an ongoing state of emergency."

Fathers, it's okay to tell your son(s), in this kind of detail, that you love him. He needs to hear it.