He yells at the kids for small mistakes, plays favorites and benches others for reasons that do not make sense.

Dear Discouraged: You are right to be concerned. When a kid who used to sprint out the door for practice suddenly dreads ...

Dear Annie: My 12-year-old son has always loved playing soccer. He is not the most talented kid on the field, but he works ...

My son has gone from running out the door with excitement to dragging his feet and saying he does not want to play anymore.

I want to teach him the right lessons about standing up for himself, about respect and about not giving up too easily. But I ...

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie hears from a reader who loves everything about his girlfriend except the fact that he ...

Dear Annie: My 12-year-old son has always loved playing soccer. He is not the most talented kid on the field, but he works ...

Dear Annie: My 12-year-old son has always loved playing soccer. He is not the most talented kid on the field, but he works ...

Dear Business and Brushes: Your parents love you and want you to have a stable future. That comes from care, not control. But ...

My parents have made it very clear that they want me to study business. The problem is, I do not want to study business.

"The idea of spending four years studying something I do not care about makes me feel defeated before I have even started." ...

I tried taking her to a ski weekend once, but she was miserable, cold, anxious and counting the minutes until we could go ...