Navigating any kind of adult family relationship can be difficult, whether you're learning how to look past hurtful childhood experiences as an adult child or figuring out how to navigate parenting a ...

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Have you ever tried to help someone only to see things get worse? Has your compassion for a self-destructive person ever led to more self-destruction? The problem is that the brain learns from rewards ...

Dear Annie: My cousin, who is more like a sister to me, has been making a series of reckless and concerning choices over the past year. After having her second baby, she left her husband and began ...

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DEAR ABBY: I have three kids. One of them, “Jake,” is in his early 20s. He has medical issues, so he has always been babied to a certain degree. Jake has struggled with jobs, drugs, friends and places ...

Every parent thinks their child is adorable, but there's a fine line between a cute moment and enabling entitled behaviors in them. While some parents laugh at their child's sassy behavior, others are ...

What someone says is one thing, but behavior is a language. It’s easy to cross the line with your loved ones from being protective to enabling bad habits, but when it comes to finances the hardest ...

I'm a millennial mom and always dreamt of being the cool parent. While pregnant I came across the concept of gentle parenting and was sold. I realized I was enabling bad behavior from my preschool ...