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.

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

Until you take your first step, you will not be able to open the door to begin the journey toward your ultimate goal.

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.

I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

I have great faith in the military. I have great faith in certain of the commanders, certainly. But I have no faith in Hillary Clinton or the leadership.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.