If you’re a long-time reader, you know I like Bill Cosby (see Cosbyology<\/em><\/a>, Love and Marriage<\/em><\/a>, and Time Flies<\/em><\/a>). This book came out in the middle 1980s, so it includes some of the bits from the Bill Cosby: Himself film, but it also has a number of other essays and anecdotes about raising his children (and about being raised as a child).<\/p>\n One thing I still don’t get is the inclusion of the Forward and Afterward by Dr. Alvin Poussaint. Maybe Dr. Cosby hopes to make a meta statement about the themes within his book, add a dash of seriousness about them, through this device, but frankly, I found Dr. Poussaint’s advice to be trite. But maybe that’s not targeted to me.<\/p>\n One of the better in his line of books (I say having read Cosbyology<\/em> most recently, so I’m working from that constraint).<\/p>\n