Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Secrets of Happy Families
I found an article on BigThink called "Discover the Secrets of Happy Families." It came with a video in which a man, Bruce Feiler, talks about why and how he wrote his book, "The Secrets of Happy Families." In his book, he wrote 200 ideas for families to try out because he didn't want to make a list of a few things families must do, and if he wrote 200 it would make it more obvious that nobody can do them all. His basic advice was that everybody is different. One parenting strategy might work on one child but not another. I know that this is true for my siblings and I. We all have very different morals and mind sets that make problems either harder or easier to solve. Feiler said that the secret to a happy family is trying. You can't just follow a handbook or do what your friends do. You have to make your own path. Obviously, I'm not a parent, but I've been told that I'm very maternal, so I'd love to just read a few of his 200 ideas in the future.
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I have to wonder whether age would play a factor in these 200 ideas of Bruce Feiler's. I personally believe that it would. My parents employed essentially the same strategies for raising all three of their children, but I feel those strategies changed over time, and not necessarily for the better. My sister, a year and a half older than I am, is the most respectful, model modern citizen imaginable. By the time I came around, their methods had changed so that I am a respectable modern citizen, but perhaps not a modern one. And my brother, four years younger than me, has quite a bit of attitude and by far the biggest head of the three. It is irksome at times, and maybe parents need to become stricter as their children get younger, as they will naturally tend to be more lenient, which makes the younger kids spoiled. Maybe I'm biased, but if the world is like the Brew house, the oldest child has it the hardest, the middle kids have it hard (but not as hard as the first one) and the youngest has it by far the easiest. Maybe this goes beyond age and what you mentioned; without a doubt, it does. This is a very interesting article!
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