If you’re hell-bent on keeping this particular playground as your kid’s home base, you have to deal with the parents AND ...

It’s taken Gale a long time to speak up and advocate for himself, but now that he has, it’s past time to remedy this. You ...

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My wife wants the family to spend Christmas with her parents. But our two kids (ages 7 and 9) want to spend it at home, and, admittedly, so do I. My in-laws are difficult to deal with; they criticize ...

Let me preface this by saying that my parents have had an incredibly trying year. My eldest brother passed away last year ...

My husband “Park” has put me in an impossible position. One of his coworkers breeds Siberian Huskies and gave him a 10-week-old puppy to surprise our kids with. It was a complete surprise to me, ...

I yell at my kids too much. And I yell way less than I used to, because I have worked really hard on my triggers, and it’s ...

My spouse and I have two kids, ages 2 and almost 5. This summer, for financial reasons, we’re relocating from the city where we met to the small town where my spouse grew up. My spouse has several ...

My husband and I have been planning a first big family trip for us and our two preschoolers later this summer. We have been focusing our search exclusively on family-friendly destinations. We settled ...