When adults cultivate a “growth mindset” in adulthood and view their mistakes as an opportunity for personal growth and education, even the most uncomfortable situations can have a bright side. Even ...

Behind every adult child who steps back from caring for elderly parents lies a childhood story of invisible wounds—from being forced into premature adulthood to having their truth punished—that makes ...

Sometimes, parents don't realize how much they're damaging the relationship with their kids. Unfortunately, parents whose adult children cut them off for good often hurt their kids in these 11 subtle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a bombshell six-page Instagram statement dropped on January 19, Brooklyn Beckham didn’t just air family laundry; he set the ...

Adult children need the freedom to chart their own course without constant supervision or intervention. When parents continue treating their 30-year-old like they're 13, it creates frustration and ...

My friend stopped answering her mother’s calls. And when I asked why, she said: “Every single conversation leaves me feeling worse than I did before.” That’s it. That’s the reason so many adult ...

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Tense relationships or estrangements between parents and adult children are becoming increasingly common. There’s hardly a day that goes by that I don’t hear about these in therapy with a parent or an ...

Recently, someone said to me, “Everything that happens to a child is the parent’s fault.” As a parent, that statement immediately carried weight. It suggested that I was responsible not only for how ...

You've been putting family first your whole life, but when your grown children still treat your home like a hotel and your ...