I'm a millennial mom and always dreamt of being the cool parent. While pregnant I came across the concept of gentle parenting and was sold. I realized I was enabling bad behavior from my preschool ...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions and tread most often by enablers. Here's why love that enables often destroys lives. Fans of TLC’s My 600 Pound Life might know, in graphic detail, how ...

Have you ever tried to help someone only to see things get worse? Has your compassion for a self-destructive person ever led to more self-destruction? The problem is that the brain learns from rewards ...

When I was younger, a story about my favorite cousin, a beautiful young woman who had married a man with an alcohol and gambling problem, worked its way through the family grapevine. He took her ...

What someone says is one thing, but behavior is a language. It’s easy to cross the line with your loved ones from being protective to enabling bad habits, but when it comes to finances the hardest ...

Every parent thinks their child is adorable, but there's a fine line between a cute moment and enabling entitled behaviors in them. While some parents laugh at their child's sassy behavior, others are ...

It was inevitable that Deion Sanders, the head coach of the University of Colorado football team, would eventually clash with a beat reporter or columnist, because he has language in his contract that ...