Family Life
How Visits to Extended Family Affect Young Children
Extended family visits offer children valuable relationships and exposure to family history and connection. However, these visits also disrupt routine...
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Parenting
How to Set Boundaries With Relatives
Family relationships shift when you become a parent. Suddenly, relatives have opinions about your parenting, suggestions about your child, and expecta...
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Family Life
Managing Different Parenting Approaches During Family Visits
One of the greatest challenges during extended family visits is managing different parenting approaches. Grandparents might have very different ideas...
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Family Life
Setting Limits With Grandparents
Grandparents love their grandchildren and often want to help. Yet sometimes what they offer conflicts with parents' values or choices. A grandparent m...
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Family Life
Family Life With Young Children: Routines, Relationships, and Resilience
The addition of a young child transforms family life in ways that parents often find surprising. The obvious changes—sleepless nights, time constraint...
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Family Life
The Role of Grandparents in a Child's Life
Grandparents occupy a unique position in a child's life. They're adults with different relationship styles, different paces, and a perspective informe...
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Family Life
When Extended Family Support Truly Helps
Extended family—aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents—can provide valuable support to families with young children, but not all help is equally helpful...
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Family Life
The Influence of Extended Family on Parenting
Extended family shapes parenting in both obvious and subtle ways. The way your parents raised you, the values your family held, and the expectations e...
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Family Life
Relationships With Cousins and Other Relatives
Cousins and extended family relationships are often overlooked in discussions of child relationships, yet they provide valuable social experience and...
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