Parents play a big role in shaping who we are, but as we grow older, the dynamics shift. What worked when you were a kid ...

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 ...

I’d seen micromanaging parents but I didn’t realize it was a trend until my daughter was going into her senior year of college more than a decade ago. She had a scheduling issue that would have ...

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 ...

Setting financial boundaries, especially financial ones, with adult children presents some unique challenges. On the one hand, you want to help them out when they’re in a bind. But you don’t want to ...

Reasons why parents pay for their adult children vary, but according to the Credit Karma study, some parents may help their ...

All relationships change over time, even within families. As kids age, it can be hard for parents to let them separate and accept that they have independent lives. At the same time, it can be hard for ...

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 ...