We all get feedback sometimes that is negative. When it’s coming from your parents, it’s easy to react negatively. It’s also easy to take it as face value or with an attitude based in your expectations of how your parents…
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As an adult it can be frustrating trying to pinpoint what a child expects, even more so if you are an adult responsible for a blended family. Children oftentimes are unable to find the words or even recognize the answer…
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No, a mother should not continue to mediate her adult children when conflict arises within the household. This is obviously for a number of reasons. A mother is there to be a mother to her children and instill discipline when…
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I recently lived through, this very dilemma, if you will, and am still alive, to tell the story, even though my parents, are not. And, I am so grateful, I had the opportunity, to care, for them, as they had…
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There are many reasons that young boy needs the father figure in their life there are certain qualities that only a man can provide in terms of parenting a young boy. Usually these have to do with the integrity of…
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My husband and I have both had problems with our overbearing fathers. My father still calls me his “baby”, saying that I always will be. Whether it be a simple home project or a complex marital issue, it seems they…
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Ever view a title and somehow it just flooded the mind with memories and made you giggle? This is such a title. Dealing with a disciplinarian mother is so simple. All the child has to do is exactly what mom…
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A child never outgrows his responsibility to his parents, but commonsense is what often rules. That has something to do with the child’s own responsibilities, which naturally concern their own family. Life is ongoing, not backward looking. Let us look…
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To a degree every child has a responsibility to his or her parents. There are times when children need help from their parents and parents need help from their children, especially when they start to age. The meaning of family…
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Deployment not only affects the service member, it affects the family tremendously as well. As the spouse of a marine that has been on four deployments in the last seven years, I am fully aware of the range of emotion that such…
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A parent should never trash their spouse (or ex-spouse) to their kids. Ever! This can destroy the relationship between both the parents and the children. Even subconsciously, a child can begin to think less of the parent being vented about,…
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Parents are absolutely responsible for providing their children with a healthy and nurturing upbringing, which is mostly complete, when they leave home. But this raises the question of what is a healthy and nurturing upbringing and does everyone have the…
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As children, we all seem to look up to our parents in some way or another. It’s the parents responsibility to do the right thing as much as possible because a childs mind is so delicate and they seem to…
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Responsible children make responsible adults, and their choices will ultimately benefit their parents. Does this make them responsible FOR their parents? That depends. Children are taught to respect authority, obey rules, and learn lessons essential to becoming well-adjusted adults. Once…
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No doubt, the toughest fact of life children will ever face is when they realize they are assuming the parental role of their own parents. More and more parents are living to advanced ages due to innovations in medicine. However,…
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Parents are often kept over protective of their children because that is what happened to them when they were younger. Most parents are not mean to be negative when their children have ideas that they do not agree with, they’re…
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Going home again: When parents treat adult children as if they were kids Going home after spending time away from parents and guardians can be a very frustrating time for adult children. As an adult who had learned to live…
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“You’re Always Seventeen In Your Home Town” Credit to Cross Canadian Ragweed for the title, but for the behavior, all the credit goes to me. I don’t know what it is about spending time with your parents, but invariably, if…
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IS IT ACCEPTABLE FOR A PARENT TO VENT TO A CHILD ABOUT THE OTHER PARENT? Absolutely not. First of all, the child is in all probability powerless to intervene in the relationship in a way that will bring a solution….
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No, I don’t believe it’s acceptable for a parent to vent about their partner to their children. “Oh your mother is such a whiner!” or “Oh your father is such a slob, he never picks up!” Comments like these are…
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I am a divorced “toxic” parent! I was divorced by my entire family because I was ordered to place my wife in a nursing home after she was afflicted by Alzheimers and I took care of her at home for…
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This dilemma of responsibility towards ones own parents varies based on cultural expectations and the role of the State. The role of the State varies based on the government of the day, where the welfare policies may not be consistent…
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Parents are responsible for their children up until the time the children become adults and are officially and legally responsible for their own actions. After that if their children make the right or wrong choices and decisions in life then…
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Who is Responsible for Adult Behavior Since we are talking about the behavior of the adult I think it is clear that the adult acting appropriately or inappropriately is responsible for their own behavior. I believe the focus is who…
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The question of when a child’s responsibility to their parents outweigh their responsibility to their own future is more of a moralistic one. On the one hand, most times your parents gave you life, raised you, gave you shelter and…
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When thinking whether or not parents are responsible for their child behaves, consider an example. You are starting a new job. You are assigned a trainer who is showing you how to do your job and how the company operates….
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Decades ago, cultures and traditions dictated that women should only stay at home and take care of the family. It was the general belief that men are supposed to work and provide for the needs of the family while the…
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Meddling parents, who do not respect or have faith in their own children, often cross boundaries that should never be crossed. It is this type of parent who uses criticism, manipulation, and threats to gain and keep control over their…
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A good barometer of when a child’s responsibility to his parents outweighs his or her responsibility to their own future would be right up until that child begins his or her own family. While under the care of your parents,…
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There was a time when the close-knit family all stayed in the same community, sharing each others duties and burdens. The Twentieth-Century brought that time to an end. Children leave home, move far away, and seek divergent life styles of…
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