kind of enlist them wherever possible in their own upbringing. reporter: are there ground rules? are there things that cannot be said, for example? no, you are allowed to criticize the parents. just the other week, they were saying, you know, dad, you were yelling too much. in fact, we have this ipad, and we recorded you yelling. she loved this. she was giving us a high five. they said yeah, mom, but we got you cursing, too. it turns out there s only ten minutes of productive time in any meal. ten minutes. the rest is taken up with, take your elbows off the table and pass the ketchup. research shows you can take that ten minutes and put it at any time of the day and still have the benefits. so can t have family dinner, have family breakfast. meet for a bedtime snack. should we play the game? suddenly i m a ballerina! here s my favorite thing from
of dying before his twip daughters eden and ivy grew up. facing his own mortality. i could feel my body sort of slipping away. he makes an extraordinary request. will you help be their dad? thankfully, bruce and his family got through that, and today bruce has no evidence of cancer in his body. with all that behind him, he has resumed doing what he does best writing. his new book is called the secrets of happy families. what inspired you to write this book? we were always on the defense. and that s what it s like, you know, to be a parent these days. we made a list of all the things that the kids have to do in the mornings. and then, here s the key, they have to check off their own lists. and so a lot of what we are doing here is trying to kind of bring them into the process, be less top-down, be less kind of parental, controlling them all the time, kind of enlist them
of the most important things to come out of that, and it may be something important that comes out of it for her legacy, and that is how we move forward and how we think about security at our embassies and in our various installations and what s the nature of that relationship between the defense department and the state department. because we re confronting very different crises around the world that require a very different mind-set than we have had in the past, you know, 50 years or so. karen finney, ann lewis, thank you so much. thank you. also making news this morning, after a tough day of questioning from the senate armed services committee, chuck hagel is still likely to be confirmed as the next defense secretary. the former nebraska senator was pressed about past statements on iran, israel, and his opposition to the troop surge in iraq. the committee could vote next week. if he is confirmed, hagel would be the first former enlist the combat solder to head the pentagon.
lessons from eisenhower. eric: we can wrap it up here. kimberly: really quick. you know what i think is important the people that come over to the country and voluntary enlist in the armed forces. my dad was born in ireland. the first thing he did to enlist to serve the country because he was so happy to be here and call america his country. eric: leave it there. greg: my hero is my wife for putting up with me. andrea: she is a hero. kimberly: to all of us. eric: leigh it there. nowhere come on the five memorial day special including some of our favorite summer memories. that s coming up. [ male announcer ] this is the at&t network.
count. they reported, the military isn t college. they claimed they ll eventually credit the school for grads who enlist. more money more problems for the man trying to develop the ground zero mosque, reportedly selling a 12 story, 65 million dollar building in new york city to generate much needed money for the project. he s cash strapped because of the planned 100 million dollar mosque which is currently stalled and also for money owed on other buildings his company owns. file him under the not so smooth smooth criminal category. alan goldman arrested for skipping out from a restaurant and a dinner bill. it happened at applebee s and we re told the place was filled with police officers, and $220 more than tbond more t