Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping ….

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up..

Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense th….

No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result ….

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come tog….

Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's b….

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to….

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults..

Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle..

We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones..