I Set Out To Write An Anti-parenting

The Bottom Line: If You Want A Happier Family, Bring Those Skeletons Out Of The Closet.

I'd Say My Best Memory Was Climbing Mt. Fuji, And The Worst Memory Was... Trying To Fit My Feet Into The Free Giveaway Slippers At Japanese Schools.

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.

Adam And Eve - And Especially Eve - Are Victims Of The Greatest Character Assassination The World Has Ever Known. Eve Is Not Secondary. Eve, If Anything, Is The Great Initiator In The Story. She's The First Independent Woman. For Me, Rediscovering That Eve Was The Greatest Bad**s Women Of All Time Was A Revelation.

You Don't Need A Grand Plan, You Don't Need To Go Back To The Ancestors And Rewrite The Rules. You Just Need To Take Small Steps And Accumulate Small Wins.