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Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

Bruce Feiler

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Bruce Feiler
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 25
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Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.
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I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
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I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.
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It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.
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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.
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I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.
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When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
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Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
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Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.
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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.
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The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up it's handing down
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Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
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Moses is our true founding father.
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Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
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The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
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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.
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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
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I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
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