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7 Hard Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents

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This Is the Peak Age to Be a Dad

By Mark Davidson

The Extreme Cost of Not Living Near Grandparents

By Virginia Pelley

How to Keep Your In-Laws In Check (Without Pissing Off Your Spouse)

By Jeremy Brown

What Happens When Parents Return to Their Hometown

By Melaina Juntti

Fatherly Voices

Extending My Family

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The Very Real Consequences of Cutting off Your Parents When your parents or in-laws are problematic, sometimes severing ties is the only option. But it's never a clean break.

How to Use Apple’s New Group FaceTime (and Explain It to Grandpa) The new app lets you video chat with up to 32 people at once. Here's how it works — and how to troubleshoot when relatives are stumped by it.

"Grey" Divorce Is on the Rise. And It's Changing the American Family What happens when grandma and grandpa get divorced.

Fatherly Advice: Talk to Grandma About All Those Presents Fatherly's resident parenting expert talks about when preschoolers attack, getting grandparents to take a step back and building the foreplay skills you lack.

When You Suddenly Feel Like a Child Around Your Parents Our tendency to become childish when annoyed by our family is the result of a deeply-seated defensive mechanism. Here's how to help prevent the behavior.

5 Things I Do as a Dad That I Wish My Parents Could See My parents passed away before they could see me become a parent. But I look to them in every decision I make.

How to Navigate Your Relationship With Your Kid's Grandparents It's hard to make rules for people who once made rules for you.

The 11 Best Mother’s Day Gifts for Grandma That's right, don't forget to buy your grandma something too.

My Multi-Generational Household Is a Blessing There are clashes. And fights. But there's also access to a world of experience from the perspective of my mother.

When Bad Fathers Become Fantastic Grandfathers Many bad dads are good grandfathers. The question is how do you deal with this new version of the man who was so different with you?

How I’m Breaking Away From My Parents’ Style of Discipline Recently, I realized the rules I was enforcing on my kids weren't my rules — they were my parents'. And I didn't even agree with them. So, I made my own.

How to Talk to Kids About Their Terrible Relatives With a preparation, coaching, a good strategy and some swallowed pride, parents can turn interactions with difficult relatives into teachable moments.

Multigenerational Families Continue to Make a Comeback. Thank God for That When my second child was born, my mother-in-law came to stay with us. It gave me a new appreciation of the multigenerational family.

A Playbook For Dealing With Overbearing In-Laws It's all about establishing reasonable separation.

How and When to Discipline Grandchildren When it comes to following the rules, your kid’s kid could use a little guidance. But how much should you say? Probably less than you’d like.

Not Hanging Out With Grandparents Makes Kids Ageist Grandparents teach kids a lot of things, including that old people aren't scary and gross.

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