Care and Feeding: How can I convince my family to just buy my teens gift cards?

Dear Care and Feeding: How can I convince my family to just buy my teens gift cards for the holidays? Dear Crapping: If we had ideas for what to get our kids for Christmas , we would get them! Parents of teens can spend hours acting as intermediaries at holiday time.

Dear Care and Feeding : I'm not sure that there’s a solution that would satisfy you or Lucy and Jane .

Hal feels more comfortable being physically affectionate with his youngest daughter than he did with children he met when they were already in elementary school.

He needs to find new and meaningful ways to bond with your other daughters.

Or you could dump him!.

I don't feel comfortable pretending to have a relationship with my father that was never there, especially when that man I knew no longer really exists. I want to be clear, I do love my father and will continue to give him what he needs in this period of his life. Is it worth making her question the illusion she has of our happy family?.