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