You cannot build a stronger family with a technique, but the research keeps pointing at the same unglamorous things: small everyday routines that say this is who we are, and telling the family’s story, hard parts included, in an open and honest way

Build a stronger family is the kind of phrase that shows up on book covers, usually attached to a system. In our experience there is no system, and the promise of one is part of the problem. What the research actually points to is quieter and less sellable: a…