One of the first "Bad Parent" pieces we ran on Babble was an excerpt from Elisha Cooper's memoir Crawling: A Father's First Year. Here's a paragraph from that piece, entitled  "Face-Off: Fights I've Had With My Three-Month-Old": 

Zoë starts crying and I walk outside to, in theory, calm her. I lose my composure in an instant. It's not quite clear to me why. Even as I half-heartedly sing, let her suck my arm, point out the moon, she knows I am upset and everything I do just makes her madder. She starts hyperventilating. She's glaring right into my eyes. I'm glaring right back. It's like we're facing each other from either end of a dusty street in a Western, only instead of pistols we have similar genes.

This week, Crawling came out in paperback with a snazzy new cover. You can order it here.