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Jun 18 My father called me last Tuesday for the first time in seven months Daniel Moran
Jun 14 My dad is 67 and has no close friends, and the hardest part is that he'd never call it loneliness Daniel Moran
Jun 14 People who grew up feeling overshadowed by a domineering parent or sibling often can't answer the simple question "what… Daniel Moran
Jun 13 I'm 38 and I keep noticing my parents never spiral the way I do Daniel Moran
Jun 13 People who grew up translating their parents' moods often become adults who can read a room in seconds and can't, for… Daniel Moran
Jun 12 A lot of family healing starts when parents stop asking, “After all I did?” and begin asking, “What was it like for… Ainura Kalau
Jun 11 The famous marshmallow test seemed to prove that a child who waited for a treat would thrive for life, but a 2018… Mal James
Jun 11 There's a specific kind of loneliness that can settle in when your children are fine Ainura Kalau
Jun 10 Since 1990, American IQ scores have kept rising, but one researcher's analysis of 272,000 creativity tests found the… Mal James
Jun 10 When adult children say they're fine but clearly aren't, some parents learn the hardest version of love Ainura Kalau
Jun 10 When a grown child pulls back from a parent, it usually isn't about anger. It's about exhaustion Daniel Moran
Jun 10 Almost every adult child carries one careless sentence their parent said at the dinner table forty years ago, still… Daniel Moran
Jun 10 People who grew up without seatbelt laws, bicycle helmets, or parental supervision past the front door often describe… Ainura Kalau
Jun 9 I was the easy child who never caused trouble Ainura Kalau
Jun 9 We tend to imagine non-parents as the freer, happier ones and parents as the more fulfilled ones, but data from 26,000… Mal James
Jun 9 Adults who grew up in the 1960s and 70s carry a particular ease with boredom, discomfort, and their own company that… Daniel Moran
Jun 9 There's a certain type of person who reaches sixty and realizes their entire social life was borrowed from their job… Daniel Moran
Jun 8 I asked 50 only-children what they wish people understood, and the answer wasn't loneliness Ainura Kalau
Jun 7 I interviewed 40 people who cut off a parent, and almost none of them sounded angry Ainura Kalau
Jun 7 I asked 45 adult children what they actually remember about childhood, and it was almost never the vacations Ainura Kalau