Comments about ‘How to maintain a healthy mother-daughter relationship’

This is a great article and it brings to light a very important fact that needs more attention given to it: Parents should be parents FIRST and friends second. Children NEED parents and their guidance and protection and EXAMPLE. Friends may come and go, but parents need to be there for their kids and know the role they play.

My mom was always a mom first, then a friend. I love her but she's definitely not my best friend or even in the top ten. I don't need or want her to be my friend. I want to be able to talk to her about things (certainly not everything) but not to giggle about boys and have slumber parties.

I have an aunt who was my cousins' friend first THEN a mother and none of her children turned out. By turned out I mean made anything of themselves and stayed out of jail and other sorts of trouble.

I agree with Thank You. Parents need to stop trying to be buddies with their kids. Have a great healthy relationship, but not be buddy buddy. Be a parent. Your children will thank you for it!

Mother/daughter is a very powerful relationship. My mother had a Victorian aloofness -- children are to be seen and not heard sort of thing -- so I did not have the closeness that I would have liked.

I probably would have gone overboard the other way if I'd had a daughter, though I now know that it's important to be parent first, then friend.

The Six Secrets in this article are very insightful.