Parents often want to give their children what they never had. But unresolved trauma can shape parenting in ways we don’t ...

(The Root) — The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is still at the top of the news cycle, weeks after Adam Lanza, 20, murdered 20 unsuspecting schoolchildren and six teachers ...

AMES, Iowa – Most parents will admit that talking with a teenage child is difficult at times. It is even more challenging when parents and children don’t speak the same language fluently – a reality ...

If you’re unfamiliar with ‘gentle parenting’ you’ve probably not trawled through enough Reddit feeds. There’s plenty of debate around the benefits and drawbacks of the technique and it often gets ...

Like most parents, I often turn to social media when I just need a minute. Sometimes, the mental exhaustion of motherhood is such that all I need is a few minutes to mindlessly scroll … yet often when ...

Family values have gotten a bad rap. When most people think of values these days, they think of hot-button topics and the divisive battle between so-called "red-state" and "blue-state" values. They ...

Life is not black and white, and neither is parenting. One of the most common challenges I see in families with teenagers is the “good cop vs bad cop” parenting dynamic. It can creep in gradually, ...

Toxic parents generally don't adopt their dismissive tendencies and narcissistic mindsets when their children reach adulthood; rather, they engrain them into their parenting styles throughout their ...