Family dynamics can be challenging at times. Sure, we love our parents, and we are grateful to have them in our lives. Yet sometimes, people can change as they age. In some cases, aging parents tend ...

Q : I teach fifth grade at a large public school. One of my students' mothers has complained to me that her son does not get enough to eat at school. At our school, there is one school lunch unless ...

We all have people with whom we struggle, problematic people who seem to drain us of our energies, rub us the wrong way, poke, provoke, frustrate or trigger us. What’s really happening when we find ...

Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...

“You’re not a bad daughter,” I told my patient, a grown woman with children of her own. Her body shook as she sobbed. Her 87-year-old mother was in failing health, living in an upscale assisted-living ...

"A growing body of research suggests that negative ties ... may be prevalent and have lasting health consequences," per the study.