The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
“A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children.… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share
