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“Moses is our true founding father.”

— Bruce Feiler

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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

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Life

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When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

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Happiness

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Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

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Success

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The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

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Wisdom

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The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

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Wisdom

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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

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Success

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