Adopting a Child, Adopting Patience

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 20, 2015

Claude Knobler and his wife had two biological children when they decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old boy from Ethiopia. It became clear very quickly to Knobler that he and Nati were different from each other, and Knobler recounts the lessons he learned when adopting Nati in More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia. 

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