For those raised in dysfunctional families, major life transitions can clarify relationships and lead them toward a healthier ...

Over the years, I have repeatedly seen how it is easier to build a child than it is to repair an adult. As I write in my book, 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, healthy boundaries between children and ...

Parenting’s ultimate goal is raising healthy, happy, successful children. Figuring out how to keep parenting once the kids ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Navigating the parent-adult child relationship can be ...

It’s natural for parents to experience a disconnect with their adult children when they leave home and start their own lives, but that doesn’t make it easy. With new expectations, experiences, ...

When your grown child moves back home, it can feel like pressing play on an old family routine that no longer fits. The kitchen feels smaller, your evenings are shorter, and suddenly the fridge seems ...

Disrespect is a difficult pill to swallow, especially when it comes from adult children. Parenting is tough, and although good parents do their best, there are always things they wish they could have ...

It’s not uncommon for adult children, freshly dealing with new struggles in adulthood and navigating their independence for the first time, to become self-absorbed in their own problems and forgo ...