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

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.

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.

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

I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset.

He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.