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Ah, the traditions of summer vacations. We have friends with a home on Cape Cod–no running water in the kitchen sink or the, um, throne room. But that's another story. The house had been passed down in the family for generations. Today, whenever their kids, now grown, bring a friend to the summer house for…
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If we’ve offended a grown child, an “I’m sorry” delivered correctly can go a long way toward repairing the relationship.
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We text our grown children photos of us in Morocco. Their responses keep us connected despite the distance.
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A mother-daughter yoga bond highlights the flexibility and evolving nature of a mother-daughter relationship.
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Spending time alone with a teenage grand has its own and meaningful rewards.
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Just when we thought we were getting used to the re-filled nest–our college kids moving back for a few months or even years–comes now a reversal. No, it's not that they are moving out of our homes. It's that we're moving into their's. The trend today, the research reports tell us, is for aging parents…
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We may only be as happy as our unhappiest child, but their unhappiness can cause us even deeper woes–or so a new study reports.
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As parents, our grown kids face different pressures and challenges than we did in raising them–and they have different mind-sets as well.
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