Previously published as 'Best Dad I Can Be' but now revised and updated, 'Best Dad, the Beginning' features 27 of my favourite columns from 16 years of writing about family life from a Dad's point of view. Experience the sheer hell that's a family changing room at the swimming pool Find out why my 7 year old son was arrested as a terrorist And laugh out loud as I struggle to cope with a teenage daughter... I've been writing about my children since they were 9, 7 and 4. We've gone from party bags and the nativity play to teenage angst and leaving home. Over the course of this year I'll be publishing all my 800 newspaper columns in a series of 7 full-length books. 'Best Dad, the Beginning' is an introduction to that series. It starts as my daughter proclaims that, "George's party bag was absolutely rubbish" and ends as we drop our eldest son off at university and bid him a tearful - but short - goodbye. Along the way there are the adventures, problems and questions that every family face... Can you bring up children without gin? When did our teenage son turn into a non-paying lodger? And is it really possible for Mum and Dad to have a sex life with a teenage girl listening in the next room? The first full-length book - 'The Swimming Pool Years' - will be out at the end of April. For now, enjoy 'the Beginning...'