The Ten Parenting Commandments

Being a Great Dad for Dummies, Australian Edition

Once you become a parent, your job has important duties (whether you want them or not): Take good care of your child, keep them safe, and develop a good relationship. A few basic rules apply and must be done as a parent:

Thou shalt not make anything more important than thy children.
Thou shalt work to have great patience during times of stress.
Thou shalt feed thy children healthy, nutritious food.
Thou shalt nurture and love thy children.
Thou shalt work to protect and keep thy children safe.
Thou shalt communicate openly and honestly with thy children.
Thou shalt make of thyself a good example at all times.
Thou shalt treat thy children with respect.
Thou shalt not shake nor physically try to hurt thy children.
Thou shalt be a good friend and supporter of thy co-parent.

About This Article

About the book author:

Sandra Hardin Gookin serves as a parenting expert for Parents Magazine and Working Mother Magazine.

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.
Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.