Susan Dominus, long-time staff writer for The New York Times Magazine on why individual parenting decisions may have less influence on our children’s achievements than we tend to think—and why we should have more appreciation for how siblings can impact each other’s lives. What's the secret behind high acheiving families? What do they do differently? Are their common factors?

Some of the surprsing factors were parental expectations, family cutlure, values, how siblings inlfunce one another, and family mottos.

Her book THE FAMILY DYNAMIC: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success 

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