Family Life

Adults kids living at home? Time for the new house rules

Posted by in Kids @Home

The current housing crisis in Australia has meant that young adult children, who might om other .times have left home in...

When a dog and his person just don’t get along…

Posted by in Family Life

When man's best friend just isn't, there can be hell to pay, writes Nicholas Dodman. Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Pharmacology...

Want to be happier? Ditch the McMansion!

Posted by in Family Life

Like Australian homes, American houses have grown into bloated McMansions. Chances are, your house is too big, and it may...

No time for the empty nest blues… except sometimes

Posted by in Empty Nesters

Sharon Greenthal names some reasons she's glad her kids are grown up. As I watched my youngest packing boxes to...

No one wants your mother’s Shelley teacups any more – not even your mother

Posted by in The sandwich generation

In this era of minimalism and mobility, who will take the Shelley china, Lloyd Alter asks. And then has to...

Beginning of the end: The ghosts came for my mother

Posted by in Private Life

At the end of her life, my mother started seeing ghosts, and it freaked me out, writes Steven Petrow for...

The secret history of the browser cache

Posted by in Family Life

 Modern manners:  Should you let your partner look at your browser history? Jon Madellem considers this thorny question for Wired....