Emerging adult children and their parents can experience growing pains as they navigate a changing relationship. AJ_Watt/E+ via Getty Images As a professor of child development and family science, ...

There's even a trick for getting them to stop treating you like a kid When we’re kids, our relationship with our parents is pretty straightforward. They feed, clothe and love us—and we lean on them ...

After college, my parents and I continued to relate in the same way we had when I was young. The mismatch pushed me to change my relationship with my parents. We became best friends in the process.

While perspectives on love, relationship values, and expressions of affection tend to naturally shift throughout generations and age groups, the pursuit of connection is one thing that remains the ...

Blaming yourself — or your child — for the cracks in your relationship isn’t going to make things better between the two of ...

Your parents were your first teachers about love, even if they never sat you down for a formal lesson. Every interaction, argument, and affectionate moment you witnessed shaped how you think ...

Teenagers who have conflictual, hostile or aggressive relationships with parents or friends are more likely to show early signs of premature aging and look older by the time they’re 30, according to a ...