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I Love You Mom, But I’m Ignoring Your Advice About my Kids

By Brittany Saunders — 2020

While it’s true that there is value in home remedies and anecdotal advice, here’s the thing: We must also give ourselves the freedom to ignore advice. It’s okay not to do something “just because your mom did it.”

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My Teen Is into Witchcraft and Tarot Cards—Should I Be Worried?

Right around the start of the pandemic, my older daughter started making spell jars, collecting crystals and watching lunar phases with extreme fascination.

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Paula Schuck
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How to Be a Strength-Based Parent

By focusing on our children’s strengths, we can help them flourish—and stop being so critical and worried.

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Lea Waters
2018
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By Now, Burnout Is a Given

The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.

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Lucy McBride, MD
2021
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Preventing Parent Burnout

Meeting the emotional challenges of caring for children with mental health issues. Parenting is hard work, and parenting a child with mental health issues is exponentially harder.

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Julia Johnson Attaway
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‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America

The style of child-rearing that most aspire to takes a lot of time and money, and many families can’t pull it off.

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Joe Pinsker
2019
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A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement

Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

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Joshua Coleman
2021
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Are You Looking to Buddhism When You Should Be Looking to Therapy?

The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health.

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C. W. Huntington, Jr.
2018
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How Latin America’s Obsession With Whiteness Is Hurting Us

Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.

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Johanna Ferreira
2020
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What Happened to American Childhood?

Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it.

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Kate Julian
2020
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Why Healthy Relationships Always Have Boundaries & How to Set Boundaries in Yours

Boundaries can help you retain a sense of identity and personal space, and they’re easier to create and maintain than you might think.

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Margarita Tartakovsky
2015
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Setting Limits and Boundaries