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Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

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

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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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The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

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

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There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.

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If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

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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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