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‘I Put My Own Life on Hold’: The Pain and Joy of Caring for Parents

After The Times published a pair of articles on elder care—one about a Connecticut home health aide and another about women forgoing careers to care for older relatives—hundreds of our readers shared their own experiences with the hardships of trying to make the final years of a loved one’s life...

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How to Share Caregiving Responsibilities with Family Members

Caring for an older family member often requires teamwork. While one sibling might be local and take on most of the everyday caregiving responsibilities, a long-distance caregiver can also have an important role.

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For a Child With Learning Differences, Making Home a Safe Harbor

An entire family can benefit from adopting a growth mindset, and it can help everyone shift their thinking about the challenges one of them faces every day.

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Mom’s Viral Photo Captures the Heartbreak and Joy of Foster Parenting

A family brought back together and healed is a wonderful thing, but on the other side of that is a foster family left with a broken heart.

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Me and My Neurodiverse Family: ‘It’s Chaotic, Frenetic and Hilarious’

I’m a neurotypical, type-A rule follower—my husband and sons are anything but. How do we make it work? By embracing a funny, creative world of ADHD and difference.

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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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I’m a Foster Parent. Am I a Mom?

My status as a foster parent is ambiguous by nature. Do I count as a mom? Legally? No.

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Caregiving and Sibling Relationships: Challenges and Opportunities

Providing care for an aging or ill parent can bring out the best and the worst in sibling relationships. Ideally, the experience of caregiving is a time for siblings to come together and provide mutual support to one another.

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