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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 TogetherIn this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self isolating family, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together. 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
In this "refreshingly relatable" (Outside) memoir, perfect for the self-isolating family, Slate editor Dan Kois sets out with his family on a journey around the world to change their lives together.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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/17/2019
ISBN: 9780316552622
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2019
Booklist 09/15/2019 pg. 16
BookPage 10/01/2019
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★★★★★ 1
Crinkley Paper Should Not be Ingested
Pattern Name: Donkey, Pattern Name: Donkey
This thing was cute as can be, and for awhile my dogs got some good play time out of it. But I was somewhat mortified when I saw torn up pieces of the "crinkley paper" all over my living room carpet. It is like a crunchy Saran Wrap, definitely not something a dog should be potentially ingesting. They can say the toy is tough and durable, but it ultimately is not, so it matters what is inside it. I really can't believe they would put something like that inside a toy. As soon as I saw it, I immediately threw the toy in the garbage. All dog toys have something inside them that is pretty non-digestible, but this plastic seemed particularly wreckless to me. So cute or not, I cannot recommend this toy and will not buy from this manufacturer again.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Tough toy
Color: Orange
This toy has a name in our house.its very tough takes on alot of tug of war but sometimes the seams tear so I have to keep one on hand at all times.tougher than other toys I have purchased
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2026
★★★★★ 1
Not for aggressive chewers!!!
Color: Auburn, Color: Auburn
Advertised for aggressive chewer and less than a half a day with him playing and its destroyed. I had to take away from him and cut off ears, nose and tail. Hes only a chihuahua puppy. Definitely not as advertised
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Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Not For Medium to large dogs!
Color: Navy Blue, Color: Navy Blue
You should know that if you have a medium sized dog this toy is not for you, Although it is listed as indestructible, the toy did not last one day. The ears were torn off before the first day and stuffing was ripped out of it before the second day! However, he really loves the toy but it's not indestructible. All in all though the product should be recommended for small dogs but still I realize that I'll probably be buying another one in the next 3 to 5 days.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2025
★★★★★ 1
Not worth it, not indestructible
Color: Auburn, Color: Auburn
I'm giving no stars, thought this toy would last longer than 10 mins with my dog. Guess not, it says indestructible in the details but as you can tell that's a total lie. Not worth the money at all.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026