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Dear Parent Sending Your Firstborn Off To College

Sending your firstborn off to college? Forget the experts, forget the cliches and experience this farewell in the way that works best for you.

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High School Activities Have Become "All or Nothing" and It's Unacceptable

Teens need lives that go beyond spending double digit hours practicing sports and activities. Instead, it's become "all or nothing."

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How to Pack for College: 10 Tips For Your Freshman [Photos]

With a summer of shopping and list making ahead- there's no reason why your soon to be college student can’t tackle the work of packing.

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29.07.2025

10 Ways Parents Can Support Their New College Student

You get that gut-wrenching text or call from your college freshman “I hate it here” or “I want to come home.” What do you do, as a parent?

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29.07.2025

If I Could Do it Again: 6 Things I Would Tell My Teens on Move-In Day

If I could rewind, I would tell my sons at college drop off . . . It’s okay to miss home (and it’s okay to miss us!) I hope you DO miss us.

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29.07.2025

I Had a Miserable Freshman Year in College. How I Turned It Around

My vision of freshman year in college and my reality were two separate things. I was miserable first year but here's how I turned it around.

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Why I Urged My Son to Break Up With His Girlfriend Before They Started College

I really hated doing it, but I encouraged my son to break up with his sweet girlfriend before college started. His answer surprised me.

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16.07.2025

My Daughter Moved Far Away: I Never Expected Her to Spread Her Wings This Wide

My mother lived eight blocks from me. I never dreamed one day I would not be doing the same with my own daughter.

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28.06.2025

Why Our Family Didn't Let College Take Over the High School Experience

Our family adopted a critical philosophy that changed our trajectory. We didn't let college take over our son's high school experience.

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28.06.2025

Best Amazon Prime Day EARLY Deals (2025)

Here are EARLY Amazon Prime Day deals we found for you and your family. We'll be updating this post up to and including Amazon Prime Days 7/8-11.

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26.06.2025

50 Things to Do Before You Send Your Teen to College

There are probably hundreds of things you and your teen need to do before they leave for college, but here are the fifty top ones.

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26.06.2025

'Valedictorians at the Gate:' How to Write a Winning Personal Essay

Becky Munsterer Sabky, former Dir of international admissions, Dartmouth, has advice on how to think about the Common App "personal statement."

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24.06.2025

Common College Freshmen Fears: How Parents Can Support Their Teens

10 days before college move-in day, my son looked at me through red, blurry eyes and said: “I can’t do this. I’m not ready.”

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24.06.2025

Be a Happier Parent: Accept These 10 Things About Parenting Teens

I have found that there are certain premises that, once accepted, will ease the heartache of parenting a grown child.

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19.06.2025

Letter to My Freshman Self: Nine Regrets I Have From College

This college senior has these nine regrets, things that she wishes she had done differently. It's great advice for college freshman.

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19.06.2025

New College Parents, Just Remember Three Simple Words

So, while I can still see your frostily frustrated face, I will whisper just three little words to help you weather this storm: You do you.

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18.06.2025

I Let Go of My Son's 529 Account Even Though It Was Hard to Do

The first couple years of my son's college, I clung to his account. I could not tolerate waste or poor decision making

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18.06.2025

What Hurt My Son When He Looked up at the Fans in the Bleachers

Parents of his teammates looked on as my son poured his heart out with emotions so strong you could hear a pin drop in between the words.

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17.06.2025

I Should Have Let My Son Fail Sooner and He Agrees - Grown and Flown

I made his struggles about me and how I needed my colleagues to see me - someone who had it together, could do it all and effortlessly

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17.06.2025

A Request to my Senior- Promise Me These Seven Things - Grown and Flown

As you take these final steps of childhood promise me these 7 things. No matter where you are, where you go, where you stay- you are loved.

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05.06.2025

The Father’s Day Gifts My Father Left for Me

I didn’t realize that some people leave us with a void that can never be filled or that I would never stop yearning to have him back.

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30.05.2025

Parental Expectations: a Crushing Culture

My words had been impactful but not in the way I had intended. I had created parental expectations that my children felt they might not be able to meet.

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29.05.2025

Does Your Teen Just Want to Be Ordinary? Cool, Mine Too - Grown and Flown

Was my son's university so focused on finding a prized world-changer they were telling ordinary students average goals weren’t good enough?

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29.05.2025

Mom of Teens and Teacher: School Is the Best Kind of Chaos for Me

So for this mom of teens, school is the best kind of chaos. A place where I know someone will always be needing something.

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29.05.2025

The 10 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My Kids Left for College

Your teens are off to college and it's time to connect with old friends, do things you’ve always wanted to do or do nothing at all.

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25.05.2025

My Son May Not Have a College Education But He Has His Dream Job

My son struggled in high school. Instead of college he decided to work and train as a plumber and he is very happy with his decision.

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25.05.2025

What to Say (and Not to Say) to Parents Whose Teens Are Not College Bound

Amidst graduation parties and college move in days, there are parents whose teens were expected to be college bound but aren’t. What to say and not say.

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23.05.2025

The Definition of Success: Life Lessons In a Letter to My Children - Grown and Flown

I want my children to know the deep truth that the kind of success I believe in can’t be measured by income.

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