STEVE BIDDULPH is one of the world's best-known parenting authors,
with books in four million homes and 24 languages. He has been a
family psychologist for more than 30 years and has been voted
Australian Father of the Year by the Australian Father's Day
Council. He lives in Tasmania, Australia.
THE AUTHOR SCOOP
Have you ever met a famous person?What do you mean? I am a famous
person! But seriously, the royal family uses my books and mentions
them. We have mutual friends. I guess that's one degree of
separation. But I hate dropping names. So I won't say which royal
family! What's the history of your name?My dad researched our name.
It turns out, the biddulphs were vikings. But I like to think they
were gentle Vikings. They would crunch onto the shingle in their
longboats and rush ashore and give parenting seminars.Any unusual
hobbies?My wife. Well actually she has the unusual hobby. We raise
wombat orphan babies, which takes two years with each one, and
release them in the wilderness. In Tasmania where I live, there is
still some wilderness, and we fight to keep it free. Baby wombats
bring some wild nature into our homes and they are food for our
souls. They do, however, eat furniture. Know any good jokes?My
father actually told me this, and we like to remember him by
retelling it, "What did your father do before he died? Answer: "He
went AAAARRRGHHHH!" What was the first book you can remember
reading? Reading? Or eating? I ate The Little Red Engine. First I
read Homer's Odyssey. No kidding. I was a bit ahead of my age. I
also had stayed clear of books after that eating episode. If you
had to boil your book's message down to just a couple sentences,
what would it be? Boys need to be loved. They must be exercised
every day. They absolutely must cook. At the age of nine, a boy's
attention span overtakes that of a border collie. So start them
cooking family meals right then. Teach them how to safely handle a
sharp knife, and boiling water (the most dangerous thing in the
house). Get them started!
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