You pose a good question for the days between Mother's Day and Father's Day. This passage from Exodus 20:12 (and Deuteronomy 5:16) is the Fifth Commandment by the Jewish and some Protestant countings, ...

I once met a prominent family business psychologist, and he shared with me a very powerful insight. He often gets called into family businesses to help with the family's business succession plan. One ...

We live in a time-crunched world. Parents whip up a quick breakfast for bleary-eyed children before bundling them into cars to be dropped off at day-care and school. Some grab a drive-through burrito ...

May, June, July. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day. The Fourth Commandment. What does the Fourth Commandment have to do with this progression of holidays? Look at what it says: "Honor your ...

Workaholics be warned. The Sabbath asserts that people have the right to limit their work, thus offering "a balance to the bonds of boundless labor, an opportunity one day a week to shut down the ...

Professor Martin Seligman is known as the father of positive psychology. In his popular TED Talk, he argues that most psychologists are fixated on finding what’s “wrong” with people, while he insists ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...