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More love (less panic) : 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia, Claude Knobler
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The item More love (less panic) : 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia, Claude Knobler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Four County Library System.
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- Summary
- "Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knoblers in every conceivable way. In this wonderfully written memoir, Knobler explains how his experiences raising Nati led him to learn a lesson that applied equally well to parenting his biological children: It's essential to spend the time we are given with our children to love them and enjoy them, rather than push and mold them into who we think they should be"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 252 pages
- Contents
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- It's better to influence than to control : how Nati's mother taught me about letting go
- Worrying doesn't help when you don't know how to worry : how knowing only four words of my son's language taught me to give up being afraid
- There are no apples on oak trees : how trying to turn my Ethiopian son into a neurotic Jew taught me it's nature, not nurture
- Eat through their eyes : how a pinata and some mushy food taught me perspective
- Less than perfect is perfect enough : how not yelling at my son for almost six whole seconds taught me it's okay to get it all wrong
- Everything bad is everything good : how the sound of thirty kindergarteners chanting taught me context is everything
- Grandparent your kids : how mom and dad two times taught me how to happily love my kids
- Epilogue : family photos
- Isbn
- 9780399167959
- Label
- More love (less panic) : 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia
- Title
- More love (less panic)
- Title remainder
- 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia
- Statement of responsibility
- Claude Knobler
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knoblers in every conceivable way. In this wonderfully written memoir, Knobler explains how his experiences raising Nati led him to learn a lesson that applied equally well to parenting his biological children: It's essential to spend the time we are given with our children to love them and enjoy them, rather than push and mold them into who we think they should be"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Knobler, Claude
- Dewey number
- 649/.145
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV875.5
- LC item number
- .K616 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Knobler, Claude
- Intercountry adoption
- Intercountry adoption
- Adoptive parents
- Adopted children
- Interracial adoption
- Parenting
- Label
- More love (less panic) : 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia, Claude Knobler
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- It's better to influence than to control : how Nati's mother taught me about letting go -- Worrying doesn't help when you don't know how to worry : how knowing only four words of my son's language taught me to give up being afraid -- There are no apples on oak trees : how trying to turn my Ethiopian son into a neurotic Jew taught me it's nature, not nurture -- Eat through their eyes : how a pinata and some mushy food taught me perspective -- Less than perfect is perfect enough : how not yelling at my son for almost six whole seconds taught me it's okay to get it all wrong -- Everything bad is everything good : how the sound of thirty kindergarteners chanting taught me context is everything -- Grandparent your kids : how mom and dad two times taught me how to happily love my kids -- Epilogue : family photos
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xii, 252 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399167959
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2014027018
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- More love (less panic) : 7 lessons I learned about life, love, and parenting after we adopted our son from Ethiopia, Claude Knobler
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- It's better to influence than to control : how Nati's mother taught me about letting go -- Worrying doesn't help when you don't know how to worry : how knowing only four words of my son's language taught me to give up being afraid -- There are no apples on oak trees : how trying to turn my Ethiopian son into a neurotic Jew taught me it's nature, not nurture -- Eat through their eyes : how a pinata and some mushy food taught me perspective -- Less than perfect is perfect enough : how not yelling at my son for almost six whole seconds taught me it's okay to get it all wrong -- Everything bad is everything good : how the sound of thirty kindergarteners chanting taught me context is everything -- Grandparent your kids : how mom and dad two times taught me how to happily love my kids -- Epilogue : family photos
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xii, 252 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399167959
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2014027018
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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