In our day-to-day lives, we often forget the simple joy of spending quality time with those who love us most. Family vacations offer a chance to escape the pressures of daily routines and immerse ...

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Thinking back to childhood, what role did you play in your family dynamic? Maybe you were the straight-A student? Maybe you flew under the radar, not causing trouble? Or perhaps you were charged with ...

Every family has a dynamic. Three particularly important ingredients to this dynamic - among many others - are assigned roles, inherited patterns of relating and invisible rules. These invisible ...

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Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While ...

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family’s ...

Are you the problem-solver of your family? Do you check out when demands or tensions escalate? Or do you tend to add fuel to the fire during conflict? Each and every one of us plays a role in our ...

President Obama didn’t want to go. He was returning home to Chicago in 2012 to deliver a speech at Hyde Park High School, and his schedule was already jammed. I was Chicago’s mayor at the time, and ...

Family dynamics in the context of childhood disabilities encompass the patterns of interaction, roles and emotional bonds that shape daily life for both children and their close relatives. The ...