Watching your parents grow older is like looking into a mirror that skips ahead a few decades. These 9 realizations about ...

As someone who writes a few hundred articles about streaming movies and shows every year, it's probably not surprising that I have to pick what we're watching as a family every Christmas. It's a ...

My home backs my parents' home in San Francisco. My kids get to have a close relationship with their grandparents. The kids can go between the houses, but my parents need to ask to come into ours. I'm ...

When my parents retired, they moved to be near my sister and her five kids. I understand that they love their grandkids, but it is like everything else evaporated after the move. Every single event ...

My parents spelled my name as phonetically as possible, but people still get it wrong. They named me after a character in a Brazilian movie. I traveled to my namesake's home and there I met a ...

Last December, my family spent two weeks traveling through Europe. I'd expected my parents to take the lead, as they'd done so many times before during my childhood. But this time, they depended on my ...

Nothing tests family bonds quite like watching your parents reject every modern convenience while you're trying to catch a ...

Being a grandparent has to be an absolute joy. But having a grandparent in your life ISN’T super fun if that person is, yanno, a lot. Just because she’s grandma doesn’t mean she’s sweet, as stories ...