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April Parent Book Club Pick


The Secrets Of Happy Families

Family dynamics are ever-changing as children grow, and most times, it can be really challenging to navigate. This book offers practical solutions to everyday problems (like getting out the door on time in the morning), and also offers up a ton of humor -- making this a great read to hand to your partner in order to get everyone on the same page.

Bruce Feiler spent three years researching the most successful families he could find AND successful businesses and organizations to try and find the similarities. This book is the result.


The book is broken down into three sections:

  1. Adapt All the Time

  2. Talk. A Lot.

  3. Go Out and Play

In each section, you have chapters that cover everything from family dinner to talking about sex with your kids to to making vacations more fun.

You might look at those topics and think “I’ve read about all of these before” but Feiler addresses them in new, interesting ways so, even if you’ve read a thousand articles about how to do allowance with your kids, you’re very likely to find something new here.

I mean, how can you not be a little bit curious about what Warren Buffet’s personal banker has to say about how families handle money?

It’s fun to see Feiler try out these different strategies on his own family!

From EverydayReading.