Dorothy Nolte

• Name — Dorothy Nolte • Birth Name — Dorothy Louise McDaniel • Born — 12 January 1924 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California • Died — 6 November 2005 • Occupation — Writer • Known for — Her child-rearing book called: Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values • Spouses — * Durwood Law (div.); • Claude Nolte • Children — 2 daughters, 1 son; 1 stepson; 8 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; 1 great-great grandchild • Notable Works — The poem called: Children Learn What They Live • Website — https: childrenlearnwhattheylive.com/

Dorothy Law Nolte was born in Los Angeles, California, January 12, 1924. She wrote a poem on childrearing, "Children Learn What They Live", for a weekly family column for The Torrance Herald in 1954. The poem was widely circulated by readers as well as distributed to millions of new parents by a maker of baby formula. She copyrighted it in 1972, and in 1998 expanded it into a book, co-authored with Rachel Harris, Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values. At the time of Nolte's death, the book had more than 3 million copies in print worldwide and had been translated into 18 languages, according to its publisher, Workman Publishing. Nolte and Harris also collaborated on Teenagers Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity and Independence (Workman Publishing, 2002). With her second husband, Claude Nolte, Nolte also co-authored the book Wake Up in Bed, Together! A Handbook for Sexual Repatterning (Stein & Day, 1975). Nolte died of cancer at the age of 81 at her home in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

• Dorothy Law Nolte PhD, Rachel Harris LCSW, PhD. Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values. Workman Publishing Company, 1998. • Dorothy Law Nolte PhD, Rachel Harris LCSW, PhD. Teenagers Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Integrity & Independence. Workman Publishing Company, 2002. • Dorothy Law Nolte PhD. Living With Children: A Collection of Inspirational Poems to Guide Us Along the Path of Parenting. eBook Partnerships, 2019.