Aretha Franklin's song, Respect, refers to a romantic relationship. Yet this part below can apply to many relationships, including strained ones between parents and their adult children. A little ...

Navigating relationships with your adult children can be a delicate dance. As they carve out their own lives, maintaining a foundation of respect with them is crucial. More often than not, this ...

Rates of child and teen depression and suicide continue to rise, as they have for 50 years. As regular readers of this column know, I do not agree in the least with current explanations, much less the ...

Spring is here and with it come Easter, graduations, Mother’s Day and weddings! This means your kids will be at lots of events with other adults besides you. How can you help your kids treat those ...

Years ago, I was asked to be my fourth child’s Cub Scout den mother. I knew that Brian’s hyper-antics probably had something to do with the request, but since I had five sons at the time, I figured I ...

Rates of child and teen depression and suicide continue to rise, as they have for 50 years. As regular readers of this column know, I do not agree in the least with current explanations, much less the ...

Disrespect is a difficult pill to swallow, especially when it comes from adult children. Parenting is tough, and although good parents do their best, there are always things they wish they could have ...

I was raised in an America where respect wasn’t a right, it was earned. Like most baby boomers, I grew up under the loving but often-severe influence of elders who endured the Great Depression, fought ...

Dax Shepard defends letting his daughters talk back, saying he wants them to advocate for themselves as women. The actor ...

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to a question about how to respond when children interrupt adults ...