Harried dad’s book reveals ‘How Not To Parent’
Walk into any bookstore and you’ll see plenty of self-help books on shelves. Writers offer advice on everything from how to find the perfect mate to how to lose 50 pounds. But writer Brad Manzo’s new autobiographical book can be viewed as the anti-advice book. “How Not To Parent,” a self-published book by Manzo, is a type of “do as I say, not what I do” book filled with examples of comical mistakes he has made as the harried father of two children.
Manzo, 44, who has worked as a technical writer for 17 years, recently appeared at the BookMark Shoppe in Bay Ridge to promote his parenting book. “How Not To Parent,” Manzo’s first book is based on “The Imperfect Man,” a newspaper column he wrote for newspapers in Brooklyn and in the Rockaways for several years.
“It’s a humorous book about all of the little things that can go wring even when you’re trying to do your best to make everything perfect,” Manzo told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “It’s definitely the anti-advice book. I want people to learn from my mistakes,” he said.