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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 to get locked in during adolescence.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Add Adolescence Challenge Chapter Children Faced Families Get Happy Happy People Hardship Identity Important Just Life Life Story Like Locked New Overcoming Particularly People Shows Skill Story Tends Them Whose

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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Behold Pause Take Turtle Walk World

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If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Children Confidence Feel Felt Give Hardship How Like Moments Need Negative Overcame Overcome Own Positive Skills Some Story Tell Them You Your

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The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Alone Along Built Community Consequence Crutches Every Every Step Get Go Going Hurry Must Necessary Simplest Slow Slower Step Walk Walking Way Where You

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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Elevate Embrace Failures Families Family Family History History Most Other Particularly Setbacks Successful

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It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Basically Created Different Diversity Figure Find God How Make Our Out Purpose Responsibility Says Someone Think Us Who Work Your I Think

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All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Answer Backs Been Couples Date Default Marriages Modern Most Night One-On-One Problems Regular Research Schedule Time Up

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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

Topics: About Biggest Child Emotional Family Family History Grandparents History Knowing More Play Process Role Single Special Too Well-Being

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The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Big Really Small Story Tell Think Way I Think

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Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Clearly Drawn Father God His Modern-Day Name Original Superman Swift

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 25th, 1964

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