latestMarch 09, 2020

Your Kids’ Friends Matter More Than You Think

Parents intuitively know that their children’s friendships are important. They want them to learn how to be a good friend and to maintain solid friendships because we know these skills are critical to... more

July 29, 2019

Going Back to Where You Came From

A few years ago I went back to visit Pakistan, the country my parents left to emigrate to America.... more

February 04, 2019

Are the Wealthy Less Generous?

A stranger contacted Raquita Henderson through a Facebook message wanting to meet with her because she liked her social media posts.... more

January 14, 2019

Embrace Refrigerator Rights

If I walked into my neighbor's kitchen and helped myself to a snack in her fridge, she'd think I'd lost my mind.... more

September 18, 2017

Who Is Your Tribe?

As children get older, parents worry about the lengths their child might go to in order to fit in.... more

September 04, 2017

Watching Disaster From Afar

The morning after my hometown started drowning, I tried to divert myself from the images that were filling me with dread. Helplessness is the feeling I’m least equipped to handle, and the worst kind o... more

March 27, 2017

Political Disagreements: Is It Better to Know?

Matt McCain hasn’t felt the same about a close friend after reading what she posted about the Women’s March in D.C. two months ago. They used to talk about everything, and he had been a groomsman in h... more

February 20, 2017

We Do: Ten Ways to Support a Newly Married Couple

A couple doesn’t get married in a vacuum.... more

January 02, 2017

Can Narcissists Ever Change?

Resolving to drop some extra pounds is a popular way to start the new year, but a bad relationship can also be weighing you down.... more

October 31, 2016

Maintaining Relationships Fractured By the Election

Election years can magnify the cracks in even the closest relationships. And this election is the San Andreas of familial and friendship fault lines.... more

September 11, 2016

The Country 60 Million Children Never Knew

Fifteen years ago, everything changed.... more

June 20, 2016

Building Better Fathers

Quintton Williams, 25, was running out things to do with his 3-year-old son. He didn't have a lot of money to spend on activities.... more

December 07, 2015

The Town Square Moves to Facebook

When Nancy McGee set up a Swap and Sell Facebook page for her hometown nearly four years ago, she figured it would be a good way to reuse and recycle things among a circle of trusted friends and neigh... more

November 23, 2015

Parenting Through Pain

A girlfriend gave birth last week to a healthy, 9-pound baby boy. In the process of getting an epidural to numb the pain of labor, she ended up with such excruciating spinal headaches that she was una... more

October 05, 2015

TAKING PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CHILDLESS, SINGLE MAN

Pope Francis doesn't have to put up with teenagers slamming bedroom doors in the Vatican or toddlers flinging communion wafers in the kitchen, but he had some sound parenting advice for his American a... more

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