How Can Kids Help Parents Manage Their Family?
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Friday, April 24, 2015
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"[The family is] like a startup — where basically everybody has to contribute, you have to adapt all the time, you need some order, but you've got to keep moving forward." — Bruce Feiler
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Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Getting Organized
About Bruce Feiler's TED Talk
Parents help their kids manage their lives. But according to Bruce Feiler, it can work the other way around. It just takes a little insight drawn from Japanese computer programming principles.
About Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler is the author of nine books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and America's Prophet. He is also the writer and presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible. Most recently Feiler published The Secrets of Happy Families, in which he calls for a new approach to family dynamics and organization, guided by "agile" computer programming.
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