The Baby Wrestler

The Baby Wrestler is a humorous look at what happens when Dad chooses to stay at home and raise the kids. This funny, irreverent, and poignant book offers a completely different view of parenting that’s equal parts Will Farrell, Dr. Spock, and Jack Kerouac. It’s the perfect gift for Father’s Day, Mother's Day, or Mental Health Day.
Cunningly disguised as a comic memoir, The Baby Wrestler was written as a confidential report by a global troubleshooter for the United Nations who chose to become a stay-at-home-dad, (SAHD). Our man believed that he could handle any situation, but all hell broke loose when he found himself in charge of a precocious toddler, a hyperactive preschooler, and a wolf-dog who liked to eat deliverymen. Survival hinged on recasting his identity into The Baby Wrestler.

Recently released by an anonymous hacker, The Baby Wrestler is packed with explosive information that threatens to subvert the expectations of parents everywhere. It comes at a time when two major trends have put American families into an ironic bind: most households with children now lack a father, yet more fathers than ever are the primary caretakers for their children. If there’s a man in the house at all, there’s a good chance that he’s doing the work traditionally done by a woman. Yet, there are still more men in jail than at home taking care of their kids. In these complicated times, both fathers and mothers need a new road map, and society needs a fundamental change in the value it places on the job of child raising.

In practical terms, The Baby Wrestler offers beleaguered parents some guidance through the experience that’s equivalent to running a restaurant, a laundromat, a tutoring service, a home maintenance service, a landscaping company, a buying club, a school for manners, a financial planning group, a pocket zoo, a life coaching service, a social secretarial service, and a visiting nurse service all at the same time on a 24/7/365 basis with no days off and no pay whatsoever. To cope with it all without pharmaceutical intervention, modern parents do not need to become Baby Whisperers. They need to become Baby Wrestlers.

This satirical tale of a vexed soul who’s brought low, and then raised up by tiny terrorists of love is told through 50 short chapters that are alternatively hilarious and profound, opening with “The Baffled King,” proceeding through “The Ethics of Elfland” and closing with “Unwrapping The Present.” It tackles tough subjects such as international travel with kids for idiots, how to change 3,000 diapers, and blocking attempts to turn your kids into zombie consumers.

Along the way, the book reveals some of the harrowing work experiences the author endured prior to dropping off the U.N.’s radar screen and taking on the impossible job of raising perfect hellions. Ultimately, the paradox at the heart of his mission was revealed over the course of a decade—there is no future in childcare, except the future itself. The Baby Wrestler is now poised to trigger a revolution in the way people view fathers who actually take care of their children.