Post by Jeanne Sager
When I'm having a rough day with my kid and feeling like a lousy mom, there's an old Tolstoy quote that always makes me feel better: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." See? At least we're not boring! But a dad named Bruce Feiler says he's found a way to have a happy family without being boring. In fact, the father of identical twin daughters told The Stir he was so sick of reading parenting books and finding the same old "30-year-old advice, delivered with warmed-over homilies, retold endlessly" that he decided to dive into the lives of real families. He wanted to find out what made them happy, and how to steal their secrets for his family. The result?![]()
When I'm having a rough day with my kid and feeling like a lousy mom, there's an old Tolstoy quote that always makes me feel better: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." See? At least we're not boring! But a dad named Bruce Feiler says he's found a way to have a happy family without being boring. In fact, the father of identical twin daughters told The Stir he was so sick of reading parenting books and finding the same old "30-year-old advice, delivered with warmed-over homilies, retold endlessly" that he decided to dive into the lives of real families. He wanted to find out what made them happy, and how to steal their secrets for his family. The result?