Making It Work With Extended Family

How do we handle the differing expectations, caretaking styles, and cultural traditions within extended families? Amy and Margaret discuss the value of relationships with extended family (while taking a moment to brag about their own relatives!)

Show Notes

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How do we maintain healthy relationships with our extended family, whether they live five or five hundred miles away? Amy and Margaret talk about how their own extended families operate, and what works best to keep everyone connected.

Amy and Margaret discuss:

The types of conflicts that extended families typically experience
The value of extended family—whether or not they live nearby
How to model healthy extended family relationships for your kids

Here are some links to further reading on the topic:

Michele Meleen for Love to Know: Definition of Extended Families: Meanings and Roles
Kiley Hurst for Pew Research Center: More than half of Americans live within an hour of extended family
Frank Bruni for The NYT: "Tolstoy and Miss Daisy"
Megan Carnegie for BBC Family Tree: The tensions that fan tricky in-law relationships
Karen L. Fingerman, et. al, for Purdue University: In-Law Relationships Before and After Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and Their Mothers-in-Law
Fatherly: 16 Tips For Creating Healthy Boundaries With Your Extended Family

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