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Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Feed Me?

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Here's a way you can catch a glimpse of the future. Take a look at what you've been doing in four arenas of your life to view the kinds of connections that are likely to lie ahead for you in your elder years.
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When Is the Best Time to Have Children?

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When is an ideal time to have children? And what are the consequences for your future life of that decision?
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When Your Mother Has a Borderline Personality

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A parent's borderline personality disorder can have lifelong devastating effects on sons and daughters. What can help children who have a parent who rages at them?
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What’s Fair? Two Views of Government

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Democrats and Republicans tend to see each other through the prisms of rigid negative beliefs. Could a more mutually respectful perspective enable us all to get along better?
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What Leads Alienated Parents to Give Up on Their Children?

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What common misunderstandings about alienation can hinder parents in the struggle to reconnect with an alienated child?
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What to Do With Your Parents Once You’re a Grown-Up

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As your parents age into the autumn years of their lives, what kind of relationship do you want to create with them?
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What Can a Newborn Infant Teach Us About Joy?

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A one-day-old newborn can teach a major lesson about happiness.
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Verbal Abuse of Children: What Can You Do About It?

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What can be done when parents, who are supposed to nurture their children, instead treat them destructively?
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What Are the Options for Kids With an Often-Angry Parent?

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People who rage generally get diagnosed as having a borderline or a narcissistic personality disorder. Who is responsible for protecting their children?
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What Are Your Options if Your Parent Has BPD Rages?

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Parents' harsh anger can emotionally disable a son or daughter—child or adult.
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Three Ways to Use Play to Get Kids to Behave

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Parenting, they say, is the art of getting kids to do what you want them to do, and getting them to stop doing what you don't want them to do. How can play help with both?
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Tone of Voice: How Do You Sound to Your Family?

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Notice your reactions when someone in your household growls or barks at you. Do you want others in your household to feel that way toward you?
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