The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of..

If you had the perception that you are very stressed out then your grey matter was fully 20 per cent smaller in volume than people who did not have t….

I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing..

Busyness has become such a social value that we will even create it, we will create that sense of breathlessness because we think that's how we show ….

But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care….

I take solace in knowing that some of the steps I took can help other people..

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts..

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers..

We live in a really crazy time when there is information coming at you, and there are so many demands on your time. It really comes down to choosing ….

What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make ….

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting..

There are new studies showing that young men and men with more progressive views of what a father should be - which is not just a helper and fun pare….

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in Americ….

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home..

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prej….

The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I ….

Even when men do more housework and child care, a lot of times it's still women in charge, delegating, so you have all that noise in your brain. You'….

I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was feeling so inadequate in everything I did. I was ….

On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then ….

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative..

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it..