The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years, written by Emily Oster is a guide to charting a child’s path with less stress and more optimisation for healthy habits and future success.
Our short summary course on The Family Firm will take you through some of the key considerations and insights on developing a business approach to parenting and family life in general. A way to run your family like a firm to help you make daily and difficult decisions well.
The Family Firm
Additional Course Information
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Course Chapters
Introduction
Part 1 - Creating the big picture
The Four Fs and the Efficiency Frontier
Part 2 - Sleep and nutrition
Childcare and Parental work
Part 3 - School and extracurriculars
Feelings - overview and conclusion
Course Length
7 videos - 25 minutes
Guided Learning Hours
4 hours
What is GLH or ‘guided learning hours’?
This number represents the approximate total combined study time required from each user to make the course truly effective. The metric is based on hundreds of thousands of cumulative study hours undertaken by the 15,000 school staff around the world that Guide has developed since 2019.
It includes:
- Length of the videos
- Time taken to complete the in-video questions
- Time taken to read the additional resources
- Time taken to put items into practice
- Time taken to ensure teachers are well versed in methodologies and ideas presented within the course