Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let's think about how the only children of the world felt on National Siblings Day, which just passed on April 10th. Horrible? Or ...

Being "at home" with their parents doesn't feel like a safe place to land. A lot of the tensions that adult children and their parents face are exacerbated by a lack of communication. They don’t know ...

Every so often, I’ll get a text or DM from a friend (or sometimes, someone I haven’t spoken to in years) with a message asking for my thoughts on being an only child. Often, these messages will say ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adulthood brings a host of realizations, but few are as enlightening—or as humbling—as those about your parents. It's as though ...

I always wanted siblings while growing up. I wished I had a sister to answer questions I had. But I've realized there were benefits to being an only child as I've gotten older. I learned to be ...

She insisted that it felt really lonely growing up without having siblings to spend time with. A woman candidly opened up about her experience being an only child and how she wished that when she was ...

This concept stems from the belief that only children share certain negative characteristics. Find out how being an only child actually impacts kids. Only child syndrome is a myth, and research shows ...

Parenting advice has gotten really complicated. There's something new every day, and it's filled with contradictions. Every time you think you understand something, it changes. All of this is a huge ...

Does an only child usually feel lonely? Does an only child lack social skills? Does an only child have more emotional problems? These three questions come up often from my patients, because although ...

Before you even think about shipping your zaftig not-so-little ones off to fat camp, consider a new study published in the journal Obesity: when nutrition and exercise education was given only to ...