The Family Firm

As families move into parenting older children, there remains a demand for evidence, and a deep desire to make the right choices. Also present is the constant fear that every choice we make is incredibly salient and important and the pressure from friends, family and, yes, the lady on the internet, to make the decision one way or the other.

The key argument of "The Family Firm" is that you can approach this phase of parenting better if you take some lessons from research on business decision making. Your family is more like a firm now, and you'd do better to treat it as such. You need a solid framework for keeping track of family tasks and, most important, a way to structure decisions to make them more effectively.