Dorothy Law Nolte (January 12, 1924 - November 6, 2005) was an American writer and family counselor. 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 expanded into a book with Rachel Harris in 1998 which orothy Nolte. Wake Up in Bed, Together!: A Handbook for Sexual Repatterning. Stein & Day, 1975. ISBN 978-0812817393