The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

help you with? The Starrs came up with a modified three questions for their family meeting. 1. What things went well in our family this week? 2. What things could we improve in our family? 3. What things will you commit to working on this week?

a menu of constructive mealtime activities, which I assigned to different days of the week. I dubbed them “The Hunger Games.”

INTRODUCING THE FAMILY VACATION CHECKLIST

The master list contained nine items:

Bloom said children go through

Many of the benefits of family mealtime can be enjoyed without sitting down together every night. Even the folks at Columbia University’s center on addiction, the ones responsible for a lot of the research on family dinner, say having joint meals as infrequently as once a week makes a difference. Laurie David, in her book, gathered a number of inve

The only way to have both is to apply the same level of passion and energy to your family as you do to your work. There can be no asymmetry.”

the most effective ways to approach sexuality with boys and girls.

All families have conflict; strong families have enough communal high points to outshine the low ones.