Family Articles

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• History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life
  After reading History of a Suicide, written by Jill Bialosky, I was moved by the way the author not only shared her story of her sister's suicide, but also how committed she was to researching ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Talking to Families about Mental Illness: What Clinicians Need to Know
  When an individual is diagnosed with a mental disorder, that person's family begins what is often a lifetime of decisions about treatment and care affecting everyone. "Finding the balance between the sometimes conflicting needs of ...
• Saying Goodbye: How Families Can Find Renewal Through Loss
  Terminal illness is a diagnosis that sends dreams and plans for the future into a tailspin.  Regardless if the patient is elderly or in the prime of life, this news changes everything for them and ...
• How a Bully Is Made
  The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
• Bipolar Disorder: Helping Your Loved One Manage a Manic Episode
  "Depression and bipolar disorder are often family diseases,” according to Psych Central associate editor and author ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 2
  When your loved one has borderline personality disorder (BPD), you might feel like you’re already ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 1
  Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can seem like an enigma, even to family and friends, who ...
• Is Technology Running Your Life? Set Some Boundaries
  I am not very good at separating my work from my life, partially because my work is a big ...
• Modeling Healthy Behavior for Your Children
  It is important to recognize that parents can do everything possible and still have a child fall into unhealthy behaviors. But ...
• The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
  The Long Goodbye by poet and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke is a beautifully written and poignant memoir about grappling with a mother’s death. In the first of three sections, O’Rourke recounts her mother's colon cancer ...
• Helping or Enabling? A Fine Line When Dealing with OCD
  Parenting for me has often involved following my instincts and using good common sense. Whether it ...
• The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
  As the parent of a teen, you might feel exactly like this mother: “My daughter went to high school her first day as a freshman and never returned. I lost my baby!” But you might ...
• Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
  It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity.  Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
• Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
  After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
  In her memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading, author Nina Sankovitch recounts the year she spent reading a book a day in hopes of soothing her grief. Sankovitch’s oldest sister, ...
• I Love My Mother, But… Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship
  In her book, I Love My Mother, But... Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship, Linda Mintle, Ph.D, a licensed marriage and family therapist, features hands-on advice and excerpts from the Bible ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• Resetting Roles: A Challenge for Everyone
  A new study by Forbes Woman and the pregnancy website TheBump.com found that 92 percent of working moms and 89 ...
• Reconnect with Your Family: Have a Hotdog
  You may have seen the commercial on TV. A dad comes home, weary after a hard day of work. ...
• Daddies Do Make A Difference
  “Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
• Constancy, Care and Courage: The 3 Cs of Successful Fathering
  Fathers Day is coming around again. On the third Sunday of June in the U.S., ...
• How Experts Achieve a Work-Life Balance and How You Can Too
  Trying to find that elusive work-life balance? You’re not the only one! Many people feel ...
• Madness Made Plain: Henry’s Demons
  Henry’s Demons is what madness is all about. Patrick Cockburn, war correspondent for The Independent in London, writes this book about another war -- the war against schizophrenia within his own son, Henry. Moreover, Henry ...
• 9 Common Questions About Dreams Answered
  Ever wonder why you keep having the same dream over and over again, what your nightmares actually mean and ...