The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

We're in a hyper-connected world, and there's a crisis of connection. The first thing that God says about woman and man in the Bible is that it's not right for humans to be alone. Social media interaction cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction. If anything, it prevents us from doing that. We're staring into our screens for so long that we're forgetting to look at the people directly in front of us.