The Secrets and techniques of Comfortable Households: Enhance Your Mornings, Inform Your Household Historical past, Combat Smarter, Go Out and Play, and A lot Extra
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In The Secrets and techniques of Comfortable Households, New York Occasions bestselling writer Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for contemporary households — a brand new method to household dynamics, impressed by cutting-edge methods gathered from specialists within the disciplines of science, enterprise, sports activities, and the army.
Don’t fret about household dinner.Let your children decide their punishments.Ditch the intercourse discuss.Cancel date evening.
These are just some of the stunning improvements on this daring first-of-its-kind playbook for in the present day’s households. Bestselling writer and New York Occasions household columnist Bruce Feiler discovered himself squeezed between caring for getting older dad and mom and elevating his kids. So he set out on a three-year journey to search out the neatest options and essentially the most cutting-edge analysis about households.
As a substitute of the standard household “specialists,” he sought out essentially the most inventive minds—from Silicon Valley to the set of Fashionable Household, from the nation’s prime negotiators to the Inexperienced Berets—and requested them what team-building workouts and problem-solving methods they use with their households. Feiler then examined these concepts along with his spouse and youngsters. The result’s a enjoyable, authentic take a look at how households can draw nearer collectively, full with 200 never-before-seen finest practices.
Feiler’s life-changing discoveries embody a radical plan to reshape your loved ones in twenty minutes per week, Warren Buffett’s information for setting an allowance, and the Harvard handbook for resolving battle. The Secrets and techniques of Comfortable Households is a well timed, counterintuitive ebook that solutions the questions numerous dad and mom are asking: How can we handle the chaos of our lives? How can we train our children values? How can we make our household happier?
Written in an enthralling, accessible model, The Secrets and techniques of Comfortable Households is sensible, humorous, and recent, and can eternally change how your loved ones lives each day.
Writer : William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint version (December 31, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0061778745
ISBN-13 : 978-0061778742
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.72 x 8 inches
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Berkeley Alice –
Good ideas presented in an easy-to-digest format
As a rule, I HATE touchy-feely, feel good, self-help, inspirational books. I’m too contrary for most management books as I think they are manipulative, and by definition, focus on management, rather than the value of the workers. In other words, this book would normally have not graced my cart but for having heard Mr Feiler being interviewed on NPR. I was so impressed that I immediately ordered the book.When I received the book, and read Mr Feiler’s bio and the list of other books he’s written, I almost put down the book again. I am not a Christian, and I find books that seek to solve problems with faith are simplistic at best. Yet, I powered on. I was rewarded with an author who writes engagingly and very well.I am not a scientist, a researcher, nor a management maven, nor am I working in a large business or corporate setting, so I was unaware of some of these practices. Further, I’ve been the first one to pooh-pooh mission statements as being top down generated crap. Yesterday, using Mr Feiler’s family meeting suggestions, I asked my staff what well in our office this week? I was surprised by some of the answers. What went wrong in our office this week? This answer was not a surprise to me, but was good to discuss. What will we be working on next week? We came up with a new schedule for training that my staff felt was important.OMG! What a great management tool! My staff was happy to be engaged in a casual discussion that really illuminated some issues! Next week, we’re going to work on our mission statement. What defines our beliefs as an office family? I now realize this is so important because it tells my staff what I think is important and gives them a compass when I’m not there. Then, a client came in talking about how his son doesn’t understand what’s important to him. I immediately gave him my book.The Secrets may not be so secret. The Secrets may be simplistic. The Secrets may not be using the latest scientific knowledge. However, there’s enough good stuff here that I will be ordering five more copies immediately!
Oddsfish –
I read Bruce Feilerâs The Secrets of Happy Families ahead of the birth of my first child …
I read Bruce Feilerâs The Secrets of Happy Families ahead of the birth of my first child (which is still a month away), and so, to be honest, Iâm not in the target audience for the book. Plus, seeing as the large majority of the book concerns a life with kids, Iâm far from the most qualified person to assess it. So, I could well be revising my opinion over Feilerâs work as the years go on. Nevertheless, as of now, I found it very interesting, full of ideas that I would consider implementing in the future.The bookâs premise seemed to me, once I read the introduction, to be a silly one. The author proposed to look at insights from different careers and fields of study to see how they could improve family life. For instance, how would a professional trained in conflict resolution deal with family arguments? How would a green beret build a sense of âteamâ in the family? This sounded pretty ridiculous (the team one still didnât work for me) until I read the first chapter and began to see the specific ideas these people had. I found particularly intriguing the sections on âfamily branding,â family weekly meetings, and the need for having close relationships with extended family. Many sections of the book have original ideas, and Feiler has done his best to support them with relevant research. I think that almost all families would find some useful and helpful ideas here.My only criticism of the book is that it definitely seemed to trail off at the end. This section largely had to do with entertainment. Some of the advice was just week or obvious (the creators of Farmville suggest playing â20 Questionsâ on car trips). Even Feiler seemed to think that the idea about making family trips more like an extreme competition (think: Amazing Race) was a little absurd.On the whole, though, this was a quick read with some useful ideas. I would recommend it and expect to revisit it myself in the future.
Reader13 –
Love the weekly meetings
I am 3/4 through the book and I have already put some of the tactics to work in our family.I have 2 boys who are four and seven years old. The weekly meeting has been an incredibly inspiring addition to our family. Our first week they suggested we work on listening the first time because we (the parents) don’t usually do that, according to them. Ha! The reward was a toy and the punishment if one had to ask more than once was 10 jumping jacks. It really helped the kids realize that they are way more guilty of making us ask for things repeatedly than we are. This weeks work is to exercise at least 40 minutes a day. This seemed easy to me at first but I am challenged by fitting in exercise for the 4-year old on a non pre school day in the winter. We actually wrestled and ran around the house yesterday. Reward, again, is a toy and the punishment is ten push ups. I wish the book had more suggestions for kid friendly rewards and punishments. Perhaps a companion book will come out with ideas.We’ve also come up with a family flow chart with To Do’s and Done’s so they whole family can take part in our daily chores. The kids are actually arguing over who gets to wipe the dinner table!The sibling rivalry chapter also helped out. I am now more conscious of how much fun they have together in comparison to arguing.The sex chapter was particularly interesting with how Joyce McFadden suggests talking about sex from a very early age without any taboos. I will definitely be reading her book, My Daughter’s Bedroom, too.Anyway, I will update my review once I finish the book completely. I can’t say enough good things about it.
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I loved this book!
manoo –
Wer einen wirklich fundierten, erfrischenden und hilfreichen Ratgeber zum Theme Familie, Ehe und Kindererziehung sucht, der hat mit diesem Buch eine Goldgrube gefunden. Ich habe es schon sehr oft verschenkt. Schade ist allein, dass es bisher keine deutsche Ãbersetzung davon gibt.
dave –
I am programmerand a dadLet’s put together these 2 things and we have this bookvery cool and full of nice ideas
s –
Mais la manière d’atteindre ce bonheur est à chaque fois différente.Ce livre est à lire en couple (chacun son tour) pour ne plus s’arrêter à des disputes stériles. Autour d’une vingtaine d’activités différentes, Bruce Feiler propose les moyens de construire et de développer le bonheur dans votre famille. La plupart des idées sont simples (si simples !). Autour d’exemples et de cas particulier expliquant la mise en place, l’auteur montre la manière de repenser les aspects (qui a dit pénible ?) du quotidien : des repas, aux “discussions”, des réunions de familles aux activités.La démarche est bonne est le mot d’ordre est claire : prenez ce qui vous intéresse, car c’est avant tout une boite à outil qui est à votre disposition. Et vous n’avez (presque) plus de raisons de ne pas être une famille heureuse.
Miss Flamand –
Bruce Feiler is an inspiration, his books do justice to the great speaker he is. The Secrets of Happy Families is a brilliant insight into how family life can be different, with great and easy to apply principles.