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Words of wisdom and experience, and a few humbling ones, too. ''Don't worry about me,'' my mother says when I bring her some groceries. ''I have a Ph.D. in loneliness.'' [...]

Byline: Theresa Vargas The task seemed easy enough. At the beginning of the school year, my son's kindergarten teacher requested that each student bring to class three items that weren't [...]

Q: I love looking at my mom's Instagram feed, but she won't allow me to post. How can I persuade her to let me have a private account, so I [...]

Byline: Marie HolmesI'm carrying my work bag, my daughter's backpack, my son's violin and an oversized shopping bag teeming with fragile art projects, and I'm trying to cram all of [...]

Byline: Carolyn Hax Dear Carolyn: My mother is very loving and very intense. Every time she comes over, she always has some criticism of how we are running the house. [...]

Suggestive as the title is, we ponder over the mentors that have guided us. We like to ponder over it, because it fills us with gratitude and humility to think [...]

Byline: Kristin Clark Taylor If you're like me and your mom is no longer alive, consider this comforting concept: The words 'Happy Mother's Day, Mom' still belong to you. Go [...]

Byline: Carolyn HaxDear Carolyn: For the holidays this year, my mother was torn about her regular 'gig' -- volunteering at a local community center serving as a 'soup kitchen.' She [...]

Byline: Carolyn HaxDear Carolyn: No one in my family, including myself, wants to spend time with my mom. She can be really toxic. She has hurt me all my life [...]

Love Andujar says she learned how to be selfless from her maternal grandmother, who raised her in the South Bronx. ''I was lucky because I lived with my grandma, and [...]

Byline: Heidi Greco Hello. I'm writing to wish you a Happy Birthday - your 50th - where do the years go? It doesn't seem it could have been that long [...]

Byline: Meghan Leahy Q: After being a mostly stay-at-home mom since my daughter was born 15 months ago, I'm returning to the workforce full time. She had been going to [...]

Byline: Stacey Steinberg As students settle in to their new lives as college students, I know how hard it is for parents to become college parents. As both a professor [...]

Byline: Steven Petrow Last summer, six months before my mother died, I walked into her bedroom, and she greeted me with tinny hello and a big smile. She then resumed [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider When George Washington was elected president, he did what a good boy should do: rode to Fredericksburg, Va., to tell his mom. Mary Ball Washington was [...]

To the Editor: Re ''Serving as a Role Model During a Father's Absence'' (The Neediest Cases, Dec. 21): It's nice to see young Jaylen benefit from the MentorCHIP program. But [...]

WEDNESDAY, July 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Moms can play a big role in combating America's childhood obesity epidemic, researchers contend. The key: kids are less likely to be obese [...]

Byline: Meghan Leahy Adapted from a recent online chat. My husband was recently diagnosed with a serious chronic disease. He is working with a specialist to get it under control [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell Mother's Day wasn't a thing until 1908, but if it had existed in Abraham Lincoln's time, he would have likely had the same conundrum many of us [...]

Byline: Michelle Singletary I've faked it. Over the years there are plenty of times I faked loving my Mother's Day gifts. If you're a mom, this is how the scene [...]

Dear Carolyn: I was raised in a single-parent, unhappy home and my mother was abusive. I grew up hearing I was stupid and worthless, and it sticks with me. As [...]

One of the worst parts of grief is thinking, at a random moment, 'I should give Mom a call,' before reality crashes back in. A great loss is many losses, [...]

Byline: Fran Wilde I wrote this several years ago for my daughter (her nickname is Urchin). In the past, she's said it might be a good thing to share with [...]

Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I'm literally shaking as I type this. My 15-year-old daughter is pregnant. I can't believe it. We had many good discussions about [...]

2019 AUG 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- New research on Science is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating [...]

Byline: Laura Siciliano-Rosen Welcoming a second baby is beautiful, joyous and exhausting - or, if you're a 2-year-old, utterly confusing and downright annoying. At first, the new sibling may be [...]

TUESDAY, Oct. 31, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- The longer a new mom breast-feeds, the stronger her maternal bond may be with her child years later, a new study suggests. The [...]

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- If mom is an insomniac, her kids are likely to be poor sleepers, too. New research finds that children whose mothers have trouble [...]

Dear Carolyn: My son, who is 46 and lives on the West Coast, has been in a tumultuous relationship with a woman 10 years his junior. He was married previously [...]

Byline: Meghan Leahy Q: My 6-year-old son is like a barnacle. He says he is afraid of being alone, so with my being a single mother, that means I don't [...]

Dear Amy: I have spent many years struggling with my older daughter's attitude toward me (and many others). I have cried, sobbed and ranted (to myself), but I can't figure [...]

Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I'm the youngest child, and my husband is the oldest. One of the 'perks' of being the youngest is that I receive [...]

Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I'm in my mid-40s and just found out a few weeks ago that I'm adopted. My adoptive mother has destroyed all of [...]

Byline: Casey Seidenberg On a recent weeknight, my 5-year-old daughter did not, in the slightest bit, like what I served for dinner. In particular, she wanted nothing to do with [...]

Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: My mother has extreme and dramatic sympathy for my brother and it's driving me insane. Both he and his wife have lucrative medical [...]