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The secrets of happy families improve your mornings, rethink family dinner, fight smarter, go out and play, and much more

An informative and compelling guide for families to enrich their home life in our age of distraction. Like millions of parents, bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler felt squeezed between the needs of aging parents and rapidly growing children. Over three years, he trav...

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Main Author: Feiler, Bruce S.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : William Morrow, c2013.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Families.
Families > Psychological aspects.
Families > Religious aspects.
Summary: An informative and compelling guide for families to enrich their home life in our age of distraction. Like millions of parents, bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler felt squeezed between the needs of aging parents and rapidly growing children. Over three years, he traveled across the United States, seeking out the smartest people and the most effective families to assemble a collection of best practices for families today.
Physical Description: x. 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliography (p. [278]-292)
ISBN: 9780061778735
0061778737
Author Notes: Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is a writer on social issues and, particularly more recently, on religion. Feiler is a native of Savannah, Georgia, and now lives in New York City with his wife and children. His wife sometimes appears as a traveling companion in his books.

Feiler completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University. His latest book, The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me, describes how after recieving a diagnosis of cancer, he asked six men from all phases of his life to be present through the phases of his young daughters¿ lives. (Bowker Author Biography)

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