About Raise happiness, After birth: the manual by Konstantinos Salapas:

There is a manual even for a screwdriver, but not for managing a newborn baby

When my partner, Areti, got pregnant with our first child and we saw that everything was fine about the pregnancy, the first signs of anxiety about the imminent situation began to appear.

What happens now?
What is our life going to be like after the baby?
Will we have time to do anything?
Will we sleep?
WILL WE HAVE SEX?
Will we be good with each other?
Will we make it?
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

I am sure that if you are expecting a baby or you already have a baby, the above seven questions have been on your mind and have troubled you a lot.

To all these, unfortunately – or fortunately, your friends and family come to answer, many times without anyone asking them. The main nonsenses you hear or will hear are the following.

“Oh, you will see now what are you up to, we haven’t slept for 487 thousand years. You will chase them all day when they’ll start walking; You cannot imagine what you have to deal with, with the little ones”.

(Friends of mine, who I wanted to punch right in the nose when they told me all that, while I already had a HUGE anxiety about what would happen.)

“Well, of course we will tell you what to do with the little one, so many children we grew up, didn’t you grow up well?”

(Parents and relatives mainly, let us judge if you raised us well, that we were beaten every five steps because we had not done six.)

A piece of advice from me for all this and listen to me well:

Put carrots in your ears or anything can insulate the external sounds, particularly the advice from experts on everything, and do what I decided to do as I did back then.

“Things cannot be so dramatic,” I thought. A kid is coming, dude, and it such a happy incidence. Here everyone presents me an imminent Hell. So what do I do? ”

In order the following.

CLOSE YOUR EARS TO THE EXTERNAL VOICES.
READ.
GET INFORMED.
LOOK FOR WHAT IS WRITTEN ABOUT CHILDREN.
MAKE YOUR OWN PHILOSOPHY AND FOLLOW IT.

Go Online, read articles by child psychologists, get books from Amazon (should we not advertise our work a little?), have an appointment with a child psychiatrist-child psychologist, get opinions, filter what is right and what is wrong.

Do all this not alone, but with your partner, and make a plan for how you will manage your child’s rising from Day 1, which will come to this world, your rosy pink and very healthy I wish!

Talk, disagree, fight, have make up sex to have fun, but end up somewhere in terms of the plan and the philosophy of growing up that you will follow!

Believe me, talking openly about everything corrects MANY ISSUES.
And after all that, make the best move.

Keep listening to no one but yourself, your now renewed self with the knowledge you have acquired, and carry out your plan.

Therefore, before my little Stephen was born, I started deboning every article which was for raising and parenting, seeing every video in Youtube, ordering books and talking with experts (psychiatrists, psychologists, child psychologists, etc.).

The more I learned things, the more I closed my ears to external voices, which no longer had anything to say to me.

Because my plan for raising my child was slowly starting to take shape.

This book, then, has this purpose.

To impart you as much knowledge as I could gather trying to do the best for my child, but gathered together in one place, without having to spend the endless hours I spent.

Enjoy!

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