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
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
Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“..and you will have many opportunities to take in human civilization at its highest levels of achievement. ..approach this experience as a… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. — 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
“At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come… — 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 Image
But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 this process,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. — 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 they can… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
