TarcherPerigee; 2015

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Knobler and his wife were parents to two biological children when they adopted a five-year-old boy, Nati, from Ethiopia, so he thought he had this fatherhood thing down. He spent the next five years “trying to turn his joyful and free-spirited African son into the quiet, neurotic, Jewish kid he himself had once been” before learning lessons about ceding control and enjoying your children that made him a better parent to all three of his kids.