Therapists can help estranged families understand the past, work on making amends, and potentially rebuild their ...

You can tell a lot about an ungrateful adult kid by the phrases they toss at you when they want something. If they're saying ...

Even if their intentions aren't malicious, parents who emotionally exhaust their adult kids usually say these 11 phrases all ...

It’s not easy to admit that you weren’t the greatest parent. Jane Fonda, 87, lamented her parenting in a recent NPR interview ...

It’s heartbreaking when an adult child distances themselves from their parents, especially when the parent believes they did everything right. But estrangement doesn’t happen overnight. It’s often the ...

For the parents who reach out to me, watching their adult child stall out, drift, or pull away is heartbreaking. From the ...

Dr. Stefanie Mazer, Psy.D, a Florida-based psychologist, notes that you may only hear from your adult child at predictable intervals, such as holidays, birthdays or significant life events. "It can be ...

You made it through the terrible twos, the "threenager" phase and parented a teenager. Whew. You may have thought that your relationship with your child might get easier as they entered adulthood.

Mothering does not end when our kids are 18 or 21. Mothering adult children is hard, and very few parenting books focus on this very long period in the parent-child relationship. Mothering adult ...