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Opinion

Grandparents Need to Suck It Up and Travel to See Their Grandkids

By Patrick A. Coleman

How to Win Over Your In-Laws

Ask the Goodfather

Help! I Don't Trust My Father-in-Law With My Kids

By Patrick A. Coleman

Fatherly Voices

I Taught My Son How to Be a Man. I Should Have Taught Him How to Be a Father.

By Jim Sollisch

The 10 Things Every Grandparent Needs to Tell Their Grandkids

By Lizzy Francis

7 Hard Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents

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Father & Child Relationships

The Extreme Cost of Not Living Near Grandparents Living near grandparents provides a unique set of pros and cons for every member of the family.

How to Keep Your In-Laws In Check (Without Pissing Off Your Spouse) What to do when your mother- and father-in-law overstep their bounds.

What Happens When Parents Return to Their Hometown Returning to your roots has a profound effect on your family.

Extending My Family My family's story is full of tragedy and loss. So, I took my kid to meet my wife's folks in Mexico.

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.

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