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When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends

When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

Bruce Feiler
Children, Skills, People
Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

Bruce Feiler
Children, Kids, Order

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, too.

Bruce Feiler
Children, Emotional, Play
"5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

Bruce Feiler
Hate, Book, Confession
"5 Secrets to a Happy Family" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

Bruce Feiler
Memories, School, Climbing

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

Bruce Feiler
Spiritual, Connections, Generations

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Bruce Feiler
Parent, Six Months, World

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