By Caroline Suozzi Back in high school, I counted down the days until I could move out and go to college. I love my parents and come from a mostly happy household, but I was more than ready to move on and start my own life. After graduating high school in 2018, I headed off…
By Lisa Belkin, The New York Times, Motherlode – Adventures in Parenting Over on Slate yesterday, a reader wrote to the Dear Prudence column, looking for advice. She asked, in part: I am the mother of a tall, shapely, stunning, 17-year-old daughter … I have worked to help her be strong, secure, and happy with…
Book Excerpt: For many, motherhood is one of life’s greatest joys, but getting along with your children, particularly daughters, isn’t always a piece of cake. In “Side by Side: The Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication,” author Dr. Charles Sophy examines this family dynamic and how moms and daughters can have an open, loving relationship:…
By Barbara Katz Have you ever asked yourself…Why do I have to walk on egg shells around my daughter? Why does my daughter feel criticized when I’m just trying to help? How can my daughter say I don’t understand her? Why must I bite my tongue when I see how she parents her children? These…
By Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer, Oprah.com I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry Truman We believe mothers and their adult daughters can’t be best friends, but they can develop a gratifying…
Question: I have a grown daughter problem that is tearing me apart and I don’t know what to do! She blames me for everything that has gone wrong in her life, especially in the last few years! Her father died in 2004 and since then it has become even more of a downhill struggle –…
By Tara Deliberto, PhDc, ParentingPink.com You’re a mother of a daughter you adore. You would do absolutely anything for her. While she is off socializing with her friends, occupying herself with hobbies, and toying with ideas of what she wants to become, you have the pleasure of sitting back and watching her grow. Thoughts that…
The Mother-Daughter Bond – Conflict & Comfort By Elinor Robin, Ph.D. For many women, the mother-daughter connection is life’s most complex relationship. So it comes as no surprise that many of us struggle with the relationship that we share with our mothers and many of us struggle with the relationships that we share with our…
Mothers vs. Daughters: Why Can’t We Just Get Along? WebMD Feature from “Good Housekeeping” Magazine By Jennifer Allen, www.WebMD.com You love each other…yet one of you is always saying the wrong thing! How to improve the conversation-and the relationship. I sometimes think of my daughters as my own personal Thought Police. Both are deeply attuned…