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

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.

Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Your thought is the parent that gives birth to all things.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.