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Why Kids Are Closer to Mom's Parents

By Virginia Pelley

Are Your Parents Pulling Your Strings?

By Jeremy Brown

8 Tips For Talking to Your Older Parents About Symptoms of Dementia

Ask the Goodfather

I Can’t Stand my In-Laws. Why Can’t I Just Bail For a Few Days?

By Patrick A. Coleman

16 Tips For Creating Healthy Boundaries With Your Extended Family

Opinion

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

By Patrick A. Coleman

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Help! I Don't Trust My Father-in-Law With My Kids Our resident parenting expert drops some knowledge on a concerned dad who wrote in about his father-in-law frustrations

I Taught My Son How to Be a Man. I Should Have Taught Him How to Be a Father. Manhood is an action sport. Fatherhood is the art of being there.

Father & Child Relationships

The 10 Things Every Grandparent Needs to Tell Their Grandkids This relationship is so very important.

7 Hard Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents These quality-of-life talks with your loved ones aren’t going to be easy. But avoiding them will make things a whole lot worse.

This Is the Peak Age to Be a Dad I'm like the fulcrum of a generational teeter-totter, lifting my parents up and cushioning my kids’ falls, and I love it.

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.

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