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Bezig met laden... How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together (editie 2019)door Dan Kois (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is like if you crossed At Home in the World and Love Where You Live and The Year of Living Danishly with something dryly funny like Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. The Kois family sets off to spend a year living three months in New Zealand, Holland, Costa Rica, and middle America Kansas, and they learn some interesting things about other cultures and themselves, but surprise, the grass isn't all green on the other side. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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--hike 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."--Amazon.com. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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That said, I do find myself inspired to want to try to do something like this. Seems a lot easier and maybe more impactful to settle somewhere for a whole year. Certainly, post-pandemic, when remote work seems like it's going to be a viable option for a lot more people ( )