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Becoming a Grandparent
First, folks who love children aim to be great parents. As seniors, they get the chance to aim also for being great grandparents. What's often their biggest challenge?
Between Parent and Child: An All-Time Parenting Best-Seller
Haim Ginott's parenting book revolutionized our ideas of how to talk with children.
Beware Of Mistaken Marriage Advice That “All Couples Fight”
Beware of marriage advice that suggests that all couples fight. They don't. Successful couples also don't sweep their differences under the rug. Here's an alternative.
Beware: Individual Therapy Can Harm Your Marriage
Looking for help from a therapist? Ask for help from the right kind of pro! Ask for help from the wrong kind of therapy professional and your problems may get worse.
Beware: Thinking Leads to Doing
Sports psychologists teach athletes to visualize making a winning basketball free throw or an effective tennis serve before doing the action. That’s because thinking prepares you for doing. When you think about something, the odds zoom upwards that you will do just what your mind was picturing. The lesson: be careful what you think about!
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Sufferer’s Experience
When a man or woman with borderline personality patterns erupts in strong emotions, loved ones can feel under fire. At the same time, the person with BPD also suffers.
Borderline Personality: Does a BPD Diagnosis Imply Raging?
One aspect of the cluster of traits that lead to a borderline personality diagnosis lies at the core of this disorder. Hint: it's NOT anger.
Boundaries, Privacy and Intimacy Are Cultural Phenomena
When couples start with different cultural backgrounds, their his-way, her-way expectations of intimacy, of what is private and what can be shared, can be confusing.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, So Here’s a 6-Step How-To
Relationship endings can be difficult. This strategy works whether you are the one who initiates the breakup or the one who receives the bad news.
And Now Matt Lauer…Why Celebrities Get Sexually Aggressive
TV's Matt Lauer today joined the club of men in high positions who are being accused of sexual improprieties with women at work. What could he have been thinking? Here's what.