Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

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

Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.

Moses is our true founding father.

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

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

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.