Family Life
How Visits to Extended Family Affect Young Children
Extended family visits offer children valuable relationships and exposure to family history and connection. However, these visits also disrupt routine...
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Parenting
How to Set Boundaries With Relatives
The relationship with your own parents and in-laws often shifts the moment you become one. Suddenly there are strong opinions about how you sleep-trai...
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Family Life
Managing Different Parenting Approaches During Family Visits
A weekend at your in-laws and suddenly your 18-month-old is up past 9 p.m., eating cookies before dinner, and watching an iPad you don't own. The rule...
7 min read
Family Life
Setting Limits With Grandparents
Almost every couple I meet hits a version of this conversation in the first two years. A grandparent feeds the toddler something the parents don't all...
6 min read
Family Life
Family Life With Young Children: Routines, Relationships, and Resilience
Adding a young child to a household changes it in ways that parents consistently underestimate. The predictable shifts—less sleep, less money, less sp...
8 min read
Family Life
The Role of Grandparents in a Child's Life
Grandparents occupy a position in children's lives that neither parents nor teachers nor friends can quite replicate. They have enough relational auth...
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Family Life
When Extended Family Support Truly Helps
There's a vast difference between help that helps and help that creates more work than it saves. When a grandmother visits and expects to be entertain...
6 min read
Family Life
The Influence of Extended Family on Parenting
Most parents replicate, unconsciously, how they were raised—often with the explicit intention of doing things differently. The gap between our parenti...
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Family Life
Relationships With Cousins and Other Relatives
Cousins sit in a sweet spot that no other relationship quite occupies: they share your family history but aren't your siblings, they're peers but with...
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