{"product_id":"9780399176388","title":"More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, Claude Knobler describes how he learned the hard way that the apple actually \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e fall far from the tree—and that’s Okay. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready 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 Knobler in every conceivable way. After more than five years spent trying to turn his wild, silly, adopted African son into a quiet, neurotic, Jewish guy like himself, Knobler realized the importance of having the courage to love, accept, and let go of his children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013096816880,"sku":"9780399176388","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399176388_p0.jpg?v=1763698649","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399176388","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}