Family

This is a tight rope and it is not an easy one to walk. Adult children can be a finicky crowd. One minute they want a caring parent to tell them what to do and the next they are looking…
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Many current and former students of the American public school system might recall Black History Month as a recurring lesson on Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and possibly a few other already well known black Americans. This…
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Television is a fantastic invention, but it needs to be controlled. Many families find that, by the end of an evening, they have not really interacted much with each-other. To counteract this, they decide to switch off the TV and…
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Though there is still a margin of about three and a half months until summer starts, why wait to plan your family’s vacation? From personal experience, I know that if you wait until June, or even May, to being booking…
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In the modern society it has become quite obvious for kids to want to participate in sex even before they become teenagers shockingly, but true.What should the parents do when these kids are surrounded by materials of sexual nature all…
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The illness of depression will touch all of us at some point in our lives, directly or indirectly, due to the fact that everyone is subject to this debilitating illness. Depressive episodes range from mild to moderate to major, as…
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Prominent families in the media understand that to a large degree, their lives are going to unfold in front of a live audience.  They also self-destruct in these same dynamics with few, if any, protective mechanisms in place.  Their raw…
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One of the difficulties with families is when there is a fight, there can sometimes be a lot of anger that erupts because quite often family fights are more than they seem. Instead of being about something as simple as…
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Every family has its tensions. Some are more dysfunctional than others. However, if we are honest, everyone comes from a dysfunctional family. It’s just a matter of degree. Size is also not necessarily the main problem. Families with just a…
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Parents who think their child is a failure are primarily reflecting the subconscious thoughts about their past, expecting that child to fulfil the hopes and dreams that haven’t materialised for them. They tend to seek a career ideal for the…
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The family contributes to a person’s sense of identity and characteristics. It serves as ones earliest training ground in dealing with life. Although spelled using only the six letters of the alphabet, its influence to an individual is far reaching…
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Breaking the cycle of abuse is a difficult goal to achieve.  Even though the pain of being a victim is so great that a person swears to not to be like the abuser, this resolution is much harder to implement…
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The importance of keeping strong relationships within your family is often underestimated and undervalued.  Families can be there for us when we need them.  Sometimes, however, there is a rift that occurs that seems almost insurmountable.  Mending these relationships is…
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An oldest child carries an immense burden throughout his or her life. The burden becomes unbearable when the oldest child remains single as he or she turns fifty years old. Societal expectations permeate family ties, and the expectation of marriage…
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No child is ever a failure on their own. They will always have help. A child that continually fails, and makes no attempt to succeed or to try to improve has a reason for not doing so. If you feel…
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Someone who needs to be controlling in a relationship is someone who is not secure in how their significant other feels about them. Maybe they have been hurt before and trust is an issue, but there are classic signs that…
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We’ve all failed at some time or other, haven’t we? And isn’t that the beauty of it. We try something, fail, find a different way and try again, maybe even fail again. That’s how we know what success is, by…
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My life growing up was a bit more eccentric than the average dysfunctional family. If I sat you down and told you in detail my experiences in the last nineteen years, you’d probably wonder how I haven’t gone completely crazy….
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Well, where to begin? For as long as I can remember, it’s always been about my mother. Now to give a little background, my parents have been divorced since I was two. My mother lived as a single parent and continues to…
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When conflicts arise in families it seems different from conflicts in other parts of our lives. This is true because the emotions are more intense and the stakes are higher. As the old saying goes, “You get to choose your…
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Many people seem to think that it is hard to spot controlling behavior in a person, but it is actually pretty easy.  Even without knowing much about somebody, there are still telltale signs of a manipulative personality that can be…
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Bill Meyer once said something that is worth repeating again and again, until it sinks in. “Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” Go ahead read it a couple of times….
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No matter how hard we try there always comes a time when a family disagrees.  No matter what happened to cause this family rift there are always ways to mend the fences.  Maintaining a relationship with your family is one…
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I don’t know how to begin this article so I will get straight to the point: If my mother doesn’t have Narcissistic Personality Disorder then she does a bang-up job of pretending to have it. For anyone who isn’t familiar…
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When parents think their child is a failure it is often the parent feeling like a failure and placing those feelings on a child. There are several things to consider when we look at “failure”. First of all, what is…
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There are so many responsibilities that go along with bringing up children, it’s often hard for couples who are together to find a good balance. When parents separate, issues of responsibility are thrown more sharply into focus. But disputes over…
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It’s happening all over again. My father was abusive, my older brother was abusive and now my baby brother is abusive. It is no wonder I am not a lesbian. My father met my mother in high school and they…
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I do believe it’s true that, sometimes, family will take advantage of other family in an unfair way.  But, to make a broad generalization and ask “why” as if this happens in every family, is a mistake.  If someone has…
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I can only speak from my own experience, the only thing that you can do is control what you have the power to control. Parents don’t only disown their children from the child’s wrong doing, sometimes the parents are warped…
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Even seeing this posed as a question makes my blood boil.  ADHD does not cause dysfunction within a family.  It is just one of many problems that occur in our society today.  It really isn’t even that bad.  It can…
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