TED Talk - Bruce Feiler - Agile Programming For Your Family

Opening Your Time Together
In your small group, please discuss the following:

• Share your names, where you live, and your children’s ages
• Do you have any weekly routines/traditions as a family?  What are they?
• In the talk, Bruce Feiler references a study in which 1,000 kids were asked: “If you were granted one wish about your parents, what would it be?”  What do you think your child would answer?  (The #1 answer is in the video!)

Watching the TED Talk

• To watch Bruce Feiler's talk, "Agile Programming For Your Family", click here.

Discussing the TED Talk

• Feiler shares what he feels are the three planks of family programming:
  • Adapt all the time (be flexible/open minded about family routines)
  • Empower your children (they plan goals, set schedules, assess work)
  • Tell your story (identify core values, family mission statement)
• How might you incorporate some of these ideas into your family’s daily or weekly life?  What practices have you found to be helpful with your family?   
  
• We often make our faith an important part of our individual stories – how can we incorporate faith into the story that we tell about our family?