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Kois, Dan.
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Kois, Dan -- Travel.
Families -- Travel.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Parenting -- Anecdotes -- Biography.
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Kois, Dan.
Kois, Dan -- Travel.
Families -- Travel.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Parenting -- Anecdotes -- Biography.
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How
to be a
family
: the
year
I
dragged
my
kids
around
the
world
to
find
a
new
way
to be
together
/ Dan Kois.
by
Kois, Dan.
Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Call #:
646.78 K797h
Subjects
Kois, Dan -- Travel.
Families -- Travel.
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
Parenting -- Anecdotes -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780316552622 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"What happens when one frustrated dad turns his
kids
' lives upside down in search of a
new
way
to be a
family
? Dan Kois and his wife always did their best for their
kids
. Busy professionals living in the D.C. suburbs, they scheduled their children's time wisely, and when they weren't arguing over screen time, the Kois family-Dan, his wife Alia, and their two pre-teen daughters-could each be found searching for their own happiness. But aren't families supposed to achieve happiness
together
? In this eye-opening, heartwarming, and very funny
family
memoir, the fractious, loving Kois' go in search of other places on the map that might offer them the chance to live away from home-but closer
together
. Over a
year
the
family
lands in
New
Zealand, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, and small-town Kansas. The goal? To get out of their rut of busyness and distractedness and to see
how
other families live outside the East Coast parenting bubble. '
How
to be a
family
' brings readers along as the Kois girls-witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper-like through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the
way
they do. Will this trip change the Kois
family
's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go? A journalistic memoir filled with heart, empathy, and lots of whining,
How
to be a
family
' will make readers dream about the amazing adventures their own families might take."--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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