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.

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

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.

Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around — it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

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

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.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

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

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

I can't - is sacrificing your potential...

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work