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Don't lecture, criticize or complain.

3 Sure-Fire Ways To Have A Dysfunctional Family Meeting

These parenting techniques will send any family meeting down the drain.

Do you want to make some positive changes to your family dynamics or do you want to decrease communication and increase dysfunction? Family meetings can be functional and productive if you follow a few rules.

New Graduate: Improve Money Relationships With Family
Moving back home after graduation? You're part of a not-so-exclusive club.

Just Graduated? 5 Ways To Avoid Money Fights With Mom & Dad

85% of college graduates will move back home. Avoid family conflicts about money with these tips.

No matter how long you plan to stay with your parents post-graduation, your relationships can get tricky, especially when it comes to money.

Empty Nest Improve A Relationship With Adult Children Who Live At Home
"What happened to my empty nest?"

Your Adult Children Are Moving Back Home: Now What?

How to improve your relationships with adult children who move back home.

Establishing ground rules at the beginning of their stay will save a lot of frustration, resentment, and possible conflict down the line. It may also very well save the relationship—and your relationship with your children is priceless.

parenting: ways to save money as a family with spring cleaning
What are you waiting for? That loose change is calling your name.

Spring Cleaning: 3 Ways To Teach Your Kids About Saving Money

Time to freshen up your wallet, so why not use the opportunity to teach your kids to save money too?

Now that we've mostly come out of hibernation, it's time to air out and clean out. Here are some tips to save some pennies while you clean-sweep your closets, car and house from top to bottom.

husband and wife washing dishes
How do you get your husband to finally help you wash dishes? Here's how.

5 Ways To Get Your Husband To Listen To You

Sometimes you have to treat your husband like one of the kids and apply some behavior modification.

The best advice I can offer you is to treat your husband the way you treat your kids when you want them to do something. Be mindful that behavior modification doesn't occur overnight, and that you'll need to tweak it to each husband individually.

50 Ways To Love Our Mothers

50 Ways To Love Our Mothers

Beyond celebrating moms one day a year what are some other ways to love our mothers?

Mother's Day is a great day to celebrate and honor mothers but mothers do so much for us that we should be celebrating them every day of the year. Our expert reveals several different way to show your mothers everywhere how much they mean to us.

how to celebrate Mother's Day after divorce
Don't miss out on your special day with your kids!

How To Celebrate Mother's Day After Divorce

Mother's Day is bound to be one the most emotional holidays for you as a newly single mom.

Celebrating Mother's Day as a single mom is not the same as when you were a married mom. And when you're going through a divorce, you might be tempted to just sit out this holiday ... but don't! Recreating these traditions after divorce is important to reassure your kids that you are still a family (even if you and your spouse have split).

Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince
Elaine DePrince with her daughter Michaela, a classical ballerina. Photo: Elaine DePrince

Limitless Love: A Mother Of Eleven Tells Her Extraordinary Tale

This Mother's Day, we honor a mom whose capacity for love is off the charts.

At the 2013 Women In The World summit, we stumbled upon Elaine DePrince, whose journey through motherhood has included life-affirming highs (watching one her adopted daughters become a rising ballet star) and heart-wrenching lows (enduring the death of two of her nine adopted children). The size of her heart and the strength of her will are things we should celebrate not only this Mother's Day, but every day. Here's her amazing story.

What NOT To Do When You're Having Relationship Problems

What NOT To Do When You're Having Relationship Problems

You may regret doing this down the line if you're struggling with relationship problems now.

All relationships have problems; some are small, some are big. If you are having relationship problems right now, there's one thing you do not want to be doing as it can cause possible further problems - and our expert revals what it is.

healing a mother-daughter relationship
"I realized that something was still missing in my adult relationship with my mother."

How I Let Go Of My Resentment Toward My Mom

I knew that if I ever wanted to have a relationship with her, I had to put it all out on the table.

My mother was one of the sweetest, most supportive people I know, but she was uncomfortable with physical touch. Since I didn't get that love from my mom, I grew up always wanting 'more' in my relationships with men. That was when I realized that I had to openly express my feelings if I ever wanted to fix my relationships ... including the one I shared with my mom.

baby milestones
Baby's first selfie!

Relax: It's Okay If You Don't Obsess Over Your Baby's Milestones

Didn't post your baby's first word on Facebook? It's ok. Live in the moment and go easy on yourself.

With my first daughter, I was certain I would treasure each and every memory forever. Four years later, I'm having trouble keeping track of those same special moments with my other two children. But if there's one thing I've learned as a mom of three, it's that I need to let go of the guilt and focus on what really matters.