30 Things My Dad Taught Me

Ian, Paul and Denis Baker

*As seen on Channel 10 Morning News, heard on 2GB Afternoons with Chris Smith, 4BC Mornings with Greg Cary,  2SM Talk Tonight, 2MCE with Richard Baillie, 2BOB, 89.9 Light FM and seen on the website Our Kidz.

This book is three brothers’ exploration of the wisdom of their father. 30 Things My Dad Taught Me will help the reader appreciate their own father, value what is special about themselves and help them to positively influence their own children.
 

The book is a meditation on the experiences of one family, but reveals universal truths about love, kindness, growing up and loss. The reader is invited to enjoy the lessons of Leon James Baker and the voices of many other great men, and encouraged to add their own thoughts and recollections to blank pages in the book, to bring out the truths of their own lives.

The authors invite everyone who was once a child to share their memories of what it was like to be that happy, scared, petulant, loving person and to re-learn the valuable lessons that so many of us have forgotten.

Visit thirtythings.com.au to add the lesson your Dad taught you and read others contributions.

About the authors

Denis Baker is a newspaper columnist and public speaker who has also worked in education, employment and training. He has written books on subjects ranging from employment to sport.

Ian Baker is a retired automotive technician and tireless community worker who has been deeply involved with getting young people into sport and supporting the elderly. He and his wife Denise have four children and four grandchildren. Ian loves fishing, lawn Bowls and the Sydney Swans. 

Like his brother Denis, Paul Baker held senior roles in the education, employment and training sectors and was involved in voluntary work helping homeless people in western Sydney. He died in 2010 after a year-long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Mary, their two children and four grandchildren.

REVIEWS

“Such a poignant book with many shared experiences we can all relate to with our own Dad’s enabling us to cherish these memories more. A great  influence on our own parenting journey too because as Paul, Ian and Denis attest, it really DOES make a difference.”

- Claire McFee, Author, Organize Your Life www.organizeyourlife.com.au

“I found the book, 30 Things My Dad Taught Me, to be a wonderful recollection of family in the truest sense of the word.  Paul, Ian and Denis take the reader in 2 directions; one, showing gratitude for the spoken and unspoken wisdoms of their father and secondly, allowing the parent reader to get an insight into how your children do notice and take in all that you say and do.  They also are able to convey the effects later on in their lives these small and big gifts of presence and guidance that a parent gives to their child.  The book made me laugh, smile and even get the occasional tear, to me that is a well written and significant book.  This book is a living manuscript for your family as it also provides sections and prompts you to begin your own pages of memories.  A must for all parents!”

- Kirsty O’Callaghan www.unity-qld.com.au

This competition has closed congratulations to our winner Paul Purnell!
Thanks to Exisle Publishing we have a copy of 30 Things My Dad Taught Me to giveaway.

For your chance to win email us at info@mummahh.com.au and tell us the best thing your Dad taught you.