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RNZ News
14-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- RNZ News
Feature interview: how your siblings shape your life
Parents unleash the arrow of ambition in their children, but siblings are often the ones who help guide its direction says Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times staff writer Susan Dominus. After a lifetime of curiosity about the ecosystems of families, Dominus set out to discover what families of high-achieving siblings had in common including the values, habits, and everyday rituals, like dinnertime conversations that influenced their children to hit the bullseye in their lives and work. Her book is called The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
New York Times
09-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
How to Raise Super-Achievers? Hint: It's Not the Cereal.
THE FAMILY DYNAMIC: A Journey Into the Mystery of Sibling Success, by Susan Dominus Once, when I was giving a lecture on health policy, I'd thoughtlessly failed to turn my phone off, and unexpectedly it rang. 'It's my brother,' I said. Someone called out, 'Answer it, it's the White House!' 'No,' I said, 'it's the other brother — the successful one.' Afterward, a crowd gathered to ask questions, but they weren't interested in the substance of my talk. Instead, most asked some version of, 'What did your mom put in the breakfast cereal?' I often get that question from anxious new parents wanting to know how they can raise their children to be 'successful.' Susan Dominus had that question, too. Finding no book on the subject, she set out to elucidate the commonalities among families that had 'more than one high-achieving child.' The result is her wonderfully engaging new work, 'The Family Dynamic.'
